House bill · 109th Congress · Did not become law
Clarification of Federal Employment Protections Act
Sponsor: Rep. Henry Waxman D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 30, 2005
- Committee actionSep 15, 2005
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 18, 2005 — Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 170.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3128.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3128, Clarification of Federal Employment Protections Act” on September 27, 2005. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Government Reform on September 15, 2005</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 27, 2005 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17212
- CBO publication date
- September 27, 2005
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3128, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/3128
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 15, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
c7f164925356b12bb43deed8ac16234bb7d3848ca385c63fad3433b9c7587883
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3128, Clarification of Federal Employment Protections Act” on September 27, 2005. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Government Reform on September 15, 2005”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 27, 2005 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17212
- CBO publication date
- September 27, 2005
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3128, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/3128
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 15, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
c7f164925356b12bb43deed8ac16234bb7d3848ca385c63fad3433b9c7587883
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. 109-313 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on November 19, 2005.Source: Congress.gov, reported November 19, 2005 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/109/HRPT/313
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3128, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/3128
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 15, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
c7f164925356b12bb43deed8ac16234bb7d3848ca385c63fad3433b9c7587883
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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
37 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 33 Democrats
4 of 37 cosponsors (11%) are from the other party.
Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Shelley Berkley (D-NV), Howard Berman (D-CA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Michael Capuano (D-MA), Joseph Crowley (D-NY), Danny Davis (D-IL), John Dingell (D-MI), Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Bob Filner (D-CA), Mark Foley (R-FL), Barney Frank (D-MA), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Michael Honda (D-CA), Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Jay Inslee (D-WA), Jim Kolbe (R-AZ), John Larson (D-CT), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Jim McDermott (D-WA), Kendrick Meek (D-FL), James Moran (D-VA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Ed Pastor (D-AZ), Donald Payne (D-NJ), Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and 7 more.
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 27, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.