House bill · 109th Congress · Did not become law
Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Commission Act of 2005
Sponsor: Rep. Michael Castle R-DEWhere it went
- IntroducedDec 16, 2005
- Committee actionMar 30, 2006
- Passed HouseSep 20, 2006 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 21, 2006 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4586.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4586, Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Commission Act of 2005” on April 4, 2006. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Government Reform on March 30, 2006</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 4, 2006 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17709
- CBO publication date
- April 4, 2006
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4586, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/4586
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 8, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
b95dee5d635a97faebf154db073bcf0313e563bedcf1ed2898a0ece7ee3ff14b
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4586, Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Commission Act of 2005” on April 4, 2006. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Government Reform on March 30, 2006”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 4, 2006 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17709
- CBO publication date
- April 4, 2006
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4586, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/4586
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 8, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
b95dee5d635a97faebf154db073bcf0313e563bedcf1ed2898a0ece7ee3ff14b
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.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4586, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 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
52 cosponsors — 36 Republicans, 16 Democrats
16 of 52 cosponsors (31%) are from the other party.
Charles Bass (R-NH), Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), Charles Boustany (R-LA), Robert Brady (D-PA), Eric Cantor (R-VA), Julia Carson (D-IN), Bill Delahunt (D-MA), Charles Dent (R-PA), John Dingell (D-MI), Mike Doyle (D-PA), Vernon Ehlers (R-MI), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Phil English (R-PA), Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Michael Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), Jim Gerlach (R-PA), Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD), Melissa Hart (R-PA), Tim Holden (D-PA), Darlene Hooley (D-OR), Nancy Johnson (R-CT), Paul Kanjorski (D-PA), Sue Kelly (R-NY), Jack Kingston (R-GA), Mark Kirk (R-IL), John Kuhl (R-NY), Ray LaHood (R-IL), Jim Leach (R-IA), Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) and 22 more.
More from the sponsor
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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.