House joint resolution · 108th Congress · Did not become law
Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Sponsor: Rep. Ernest Istook R-OKWhere it went
- IntroducedFeb 13, 2003
- Committee actionSep 22, 2004
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 22, 2004 — Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 22.
- Congress.gov noteOn 6/25/2003, a motion was filed to discharge the Rules Committee from consideration of H.Res.275 a resolution providing for the consideration of H.J.Res.22. A discharge petition requires 218 signatures for further action. (Discharge Petition No. 108-3: text with signatures.)Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- notes
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.J.Res. 22, 108th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hjres/22
- 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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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.J.Res. 22, 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
133 cosponsors — 115 Republicans, 18 Democrats
20 of 133 cosponsors (15%) are from the other party.
Robert Aderholt (R-AL), W. Akin (R-MO), Rodney Alexander (R-LA), Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Spencer Bachus (R-AL), Richard Baker (R-LA), Cass Ballenger (R-NC), J. Barrett (R-SC), Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Joe Barton (R-TX), Charles Bass (R-NH), Bob Beauprez (R-CO), Michael Bilirakis (R-FL), Rob Bishop (R-UT), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), John Boehner (R-OH), John Boozman (R-AR), Leonard Boswell (D-IA), Jeb Bradley (R-NH), Kevin Brady (R-TX), Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL), Michael Burgess (R-TX), Dan Burton (R-IN), Stephen Buyer (R-IN), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Dave Camp (R-MI), Chris Cannon (R-UT), Ed Case (D-HI), Steve Chabot (R-OH) and 103 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 108th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Ernest Istook.
- H.R. 2989 (108th) Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004
- H.R. 5025 (108th) Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005
- H.R. 4193 (108th) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow for the expansion of areas designated as renewal communities based on 2000 census data…
- H.J.Res. 46 (108th) Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States restoring religious freedom.
- H.R. 4892 (108th) To establish that marriage in the United States consists only of the union of a man and a woman.
- H.R. 3184 (108th) Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Act
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.