House bill · 107th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedJul 18, 2001
- Committee actionskipped
- Passed HouseDec 20, 2001 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 20, 2001 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2561.
- Congress.gov noteFor further action, see S. 2237, which became Public Law 107-330 on 12/6/2002.Source: Congress.gov, record updated June 6, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- notes
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2561, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/2561
- 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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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of June 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2561, last updated June 6, 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
14 cosponsors — 8 Republicans, 6 Democrats
6 of 14 cosponsors (43%) are from the other party.
John Baldacci (D-ME), John Cooksey (R-LA), Lane Evans (D-IL), Benjamin Gilman (R-NY), Wally Herger (R-CA), William Jefferson (D-LA), Brian Kerns (R-IN), John McHugh (R-NY), John Murtha (D-PA), F. Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Ike Skelton (D-MO), Christopher Smith (R-NJ), Gene Taylor (D-MS), David Vitter (R-LA).
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 28, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.