Senate bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 1997
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 17, 1997
- Committee actionOct 9, 1997
- Passed SenateNov 9, 1997 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 9, 1997 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1189.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1189, Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 1997” on October 21, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on October 9, 1997”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 21, 1997 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10477
- CBO publication date
- October 21, 1997
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 1189, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/1189
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- 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.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of August 10, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 1189, last updated August 10, 2026. 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 — 4 Republicans, 2 Democrats, 1 independent
2 of 7 cosponsors (29%) are from the other party.
Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), James Jeffords (I-VT), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Theodore Stevens (R-AK), James Thurmond (R-SC), Robert Torricelli (D-NJ).
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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.