House bill · 110th Congress · Did not become law
Re-Empowerment of Skilled and Professional Employees and Construction Tradesworkers (RESPECT) Act
Sponsor: Rep. Robert Andrews D-NJWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 22, 2007
- Committee actionSep 19, 2007
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 19, 2007 — Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 26 - 20.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1644.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1644, Re-Empowerment of Skilled and Professional Employees and Construction Tradesworkers (RESPECT) Act” on September 24, 2007. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and Labor on September 19, 2007</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 24, 2007 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/19165
- CBO publication date
- September 24, 2007
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1644, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/1644
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- March 23, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
e74afbfe3b3f22a665c06ec858b20082e62ff3f3ac576dc1534382a410e19eb5
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1644, Re-Empowerment of Skilled and Professional Employees and Construction Tradesworkers (RESPECT) Act” on September 24, 2007. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and Labor on September 19, 2007”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 24, 2007 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/19165
- CBO publication date
- September 24, 2007
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1644, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/1644
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- March 23, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
e74afbfe3b3f22a665c06ec858b20082e62ff3f3ac576dc1534382a410e19eb5
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 March 23, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1644, last updated March 23, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 27, 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
163 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 159 Democrats
4 of 163 cosponsors (2%) are from the other party.
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Thomas Allen (D-ME), Jason Altmire (D-PA), Michael Arcuri (D-NY), Joe Baca (D-CA), Brian Baird (D-WA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), John Barrow (D-GA), Xavier Becerra (D-CA), Shelley Berkley (D-NV), Howard Berman (D-CA), Timothy Bishop (D-NY), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Leonard Boswell (D-IA), Rick Boucher (D-VA), Robert Brady (D-PA), Bruce Braley (D-IA), Corrine Brown (D-FL), Lois Capps (D-CA), Michael Capuano (D-MA), Russ Carnahan (D-MO), André Carson (D-IN), Julia Carson (D-IN), Ben Chandler (D-KY), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Steve Cohen (D-TN), John Conyers (D-MI), Jerry Costello (D-IL), Joe Courtney (D-CT) and 133 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 110th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Robert Andrews.
- H.R. 1876 (110th) Mortgage Cancellation Relief Act of 2007
- H.R. 5615 (110th) Group Health Plan Prosthetics Parity Act of 2007
- H.Res. 858 (110th) Supporting the goals and ideals of the National Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week.
- H.R. 6111 (110th) Employee Misclassification Prevention Act
- H.R. 1643 (110th) Volunteer Firefighter and EMS Personnel Job Protection Act
- H.Res. 757 (110th) Requiring the House of Representatives to take any legislative action necessary to verify the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment…
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.