House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
Theater Missile Defense Improvement Act of 1998
Sponsor: Rep. Curt Weldon R-PAWhere it went
- IntroducedOct 31, 1997
- Committee actionMar 17, 1998
- Passed HouseMar 30, 1998 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 31, 1998 — Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2786.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2786, Theater Missile Defense Improvement Act of 1998” on March 18, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on National Security on March 17, 1998”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 18, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10683
- CBO publication date
- March 18, 1998
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2786, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/2786
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 6, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-468 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Armed Services Committee on March 27, 1998.Source: Congress.gov, reported March 27, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/468
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2786, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/2786
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 6, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
5c2be15571e760c67a89bf5f4e03b4f8c800277c16c33a696e799c527a075992
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
111 cosponsors — 91 Republicans, 20 Democrats
21 of 111 cosponsors (19%) are from the other party.
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Spencer Bachus (R-AL), Cass Ballenger (R-NC), Bill Barrett (R-NE), Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Joe Barton (R-TX), Herbert Bateman (R-VA), Douglas Bereuter (R-NE), Brian Bilbray (R-CA), Michael Bilirakis (R-FL), Rod Blagojevich (D-IL), John Boehner (R-OH), Sonny Bono (R-CA), Jim Bunning (R-KY), Stephen Buyer (R-IN), H. Callahan (R-AL), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Charles Canady (R-FL), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Helen Chenoweth-Hage (R-ID), Howard Coble (R-NC), Mac Collins (R-GA), Larry Combest (R-TX), John Cooksey (R-LA), Christopher Cox (R-CA), William Coyne (D-PA), Robert Cramer (D-AL), Randy Cunningham (R-CA), Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL) and 81 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Curt Weldon.
- H.Res. 98 (105th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to limits in any bilateral or multilateral agreement on certain missile…
- H.R. 4402 (105th) To declare it to be the policy of the United States to deploy a national missile defense.
- H.R. 3764 (105th) Rescue and Emergency Services Prepared for Our Nation's Defense Act
- H.Res. 571 (105th) Expressing sympathy to the family and colleagues of Lev Yakovlevich Rokhlin, and expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that…
- H.R. 3746 (105th) To authorize the addition of the Paoli Battlefield site in Malvern, Pennsylvania, to the Valley Forge National Historical Park, and for…
- H.Res. 41 (105th) Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish a Citizens' Commission on Congressional Ethics, and for other purposes.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 29, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.