House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
To designate the Federal building located at 290 Broadway in New York, New York, as the "Ronald H. Brown Federal Building".
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 7, 1997
- Committee actionJul 23, 1997
- Passed HouseSep 23, 1997 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 24, 1997 — Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 29.
- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-210 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on July 28, 1997.Source: Congress.gov, reported July 28, 1997 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/210
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 29, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/29
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 8, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
190b86086a9b364eb20975732ca2da7fc5617b9b2a78a23438f0bf6118e35aae
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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
57 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 53 Democrats
4 of 57 cosponsors (7%) are from the other party.
Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Thomas Barrett (D-WI), David Bonior (D-MI), George Brown (D-CA), Julia Carson (D-IN), William Clay (D-MO), John Conyers (D-MI), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Bill Delahunt (D-MA), Ronald Dellums (D-CA), Julian Dixon (D-CA), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Eni Faleomavaega (D-AS), Sam Farr (D-CA), Vic Fazio (D-CA), Barney Frank (D-MA), Martin Frost (D-TX), Samuel Gejdenson (D-CT), Richard Gephardt (D-MO), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Jesse Jackson (D-IL), William Jefferson (D-LA), Joseph Kennedy (D-MA), Barbara Kennelly (D-CT), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), John LaFalce (D-NY), Sander Levin (D-MI) and 27 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Charles Rangel.
- H.Res. 183 (105th) Honoring the life of Betty Shabazz.
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- H.R. 3207 (105th) To amend the Social Security Act to establish the Save Social Security First Reserve Fund into which the Secretary of the Treasury shall…
- H.R. 4597 (105th) Save Social Security and Taxpayer Relief Act of 1998
- H.R. 2428 (105th) Internal Revenue Service Improvement Act of 1997
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.