House bill · 107th Congress · Did not become law

Keep Our Promise to America's Military Retirees Act

H.R. 179Introduced Jan 3, 2001Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Sponsor: Rep. Ronnie Shows D-MS

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Where it went

IntroducedJan 3, 2001
Committee action—
Passed House—
Passed Senate—
To the President—
Became law—

Latest action: Jun 7, 2001 — Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2960-2961)

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 179.

CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 179, Keep Our Promise to America's Military Retirees Act” on June 12, 2001. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as introduced on January 3, 2001, with subsequent changes to section 3</p>”.
Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 12, 2001 ↗
Evidence
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CBO publication
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13109
CBO publication date
June 12, 2001
Congress.gov bill record
H.R. 179, 107th Congress
Congress.gov API record
https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/179
Record last updated by Congress.gov
August 19, 2025
PORKER copy retrieved
September 28, 2026
Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
802c59d8c1428ff0ece49c8eb72976624051b7c17ecd282f57b7e4d98b612282
CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 179, Keep Our Promise to America's Military Retirees Act” on June 12, 2001. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as introduced on January 3, 2001, with subsequent changes to section 3”.
Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 12, 2001 ↗
Evidence
Field in the Congress.gov record
cboCostEstimates
CBO publication
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13109
CBO publication date
June 12, 2001
Congress.gov bill record
H.R. 179, 107th Congress
Congress.gov API record
https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/179
Record last updated by Congress.gov
August 19, 2025
PORKER copy retrieved
September 28, 2026
Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
802c59d8c1428ff0ece49c8eb72976624051b7c17ecd282f57b7e4d98b612282
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of August 19, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 179, last updated August 19, 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

322 cosponsors — 140 Republicans, 181 Democrats, 1 independent

139 of 322 cosponsors (43%) are from the other party.

Anibal Acevedo-Vila (D-PR), Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Robert Aderholt (R-AL), W. Akin (R-MO), Thomas Allen (D-ME), Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Joe Baca (D-CA), Brian Baird (D-WA), John Baldacci (D-ME), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), James Barcia (D-MI), Bob Barr (R-GA), Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Charles Bass (R-NH), Xavier Becerra (D-CA), Shelley Berkley (D-NV), Howard Berman (D-CA), Marion Berry (D-AR), Judy Biggert (R-IL), Michael Bilirakis (R-FL), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Rod Blagojevich (D-IL), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Henry Bonilla (R-TX), David Bonior (D-MI), Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), John Boozman (R-AR), Leonard Boswell (D-IA), Rick Boucher (D-VA), Allen Boyd (D-FL) and 292 more.

More from the sponsor

Other 107th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Ronnie Shows.

Sponsor’s state and district

Mississippi in Congress · MS-4 district

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