House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
National Dialogue on Social Security Act of 1998
Sponsor: Rep. Bill Archer R-TXWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 25, 1998
- Committee actionApr 22, 1998
- Passed HouseApr 29, 1998 · 413–8
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 30, 1998 — Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3546.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3546, National Dialogue on Social Security Act of 1998” on April 23, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on April 22, 1998”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 23, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10796
- CBO publication date
- April 23, 1998
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3546, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/3546
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.
- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-493 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Ways and Means Committee on April 23, 1998.Source: Congress.gov, reported April 23, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/493
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3546, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/3546
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
7cf437b4370b1788291e0d41abd38b84a2b9e3d09ff2b000b085a0c180e2ad5d
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From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3546, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 28, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
7 cosponsors — 7 Republicans
0 of 7 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Jim Bunning (R-KY), Jennifer Dunn (R-WA), Wally Herger (R-CA), John Kasich (R-OH), Jim Ramstad (R-MN), Bill Redmond (R-NM), Gerald Weller (R-IL).
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Bill Archer.
- H.R. 2676 (105th) Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998
- H.R. 1226 (105th) Taxpayer Browsing Protection Act
- H.R. 668 (105th) Airport and Airway Trust Fund Tax Reinstatement Act of 1997
- H.R. 2646 (105th) Parent and Student Savings Account PLUS Act
- H.R. 4579 (105th) Taxpayer Relief Act of 1998
- H.R. 2513 (105th) An Act to provide tax-free treatment of reward monies devoted to the victims of "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski.
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.