House bill · 108th Congress · Public Law 108-126
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visitor Center Act
Became law on Nov 17, 2003.
Sponsor: Rep. Richard Pombo R-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 26, 2003
- Committee actionSep 24, 2003
- Passed HouseOct 15, 2003 · by voice vote
- Passed SenateNov 5, 2003 · by unanimous consent
- Resolving differencesNov 6, 2003
- To the PresidentNov 7, 2003
- Became lawNov 17, 2003
Latest action: Nov 17, 2003 — Became Public Law No: 108-126.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1442.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1442, A bill to authorize the design and construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial” on September 26, 2003. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on September 24, 2003</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 26, 2003 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/14775
- CBO publication date
- September 26, 2003
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1442, 108th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/1442
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 18, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1442, A bill to authorize the design and construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial” on September 26, 2003. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on September 24, 2003”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 26, 2003 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/14775
- CBO publication date
- September 26, 2003
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1442, 108th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/1442
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 18, 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. 108-295 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on October 2, 2003.Source: Congress.gov, reported October 2, 2003 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/108/HRPT/295
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1442, 108th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/1442
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 18, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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
85 cosponsors — 32 Republicans, 53 Democrats
53 of 85 cosponsors (62%) are from the other party.
Anibal Acevedo-Vila (D-PR), Bob Beauprez (R-CO), Howard Berman (D-CA), Rob Bishop (R-UT), Timothy Bishop (D-NY), Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), Leonard Boswell (D-IA), Corrine Brown (D-FL), Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Lois Capps (D-CA), Dennis Cardoza (D-CA), Brad Carson (D-OK), Donna Christensen (D-VI), Tom Cole (R-OK), John Conyers (D-MI), Barbara Cubin (R-WY), Randy Cunningham (R-CA), Lincoln Davis (D-TN), Peter Deutsch (D-FL), John Dingell (D-MI), John Doolittle (R-CA), Lane Evans (D-IL), Eni Faleomavaega (D-AS), Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Bob Filner (D-CA), Mark Foley (R-FL), Harold Ford (D-TN), Barney Frank (D-MA), Martin Frost (D-TX) and 55 more.
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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.