House bill · 110th Congress · Did not become law
Shirley A. Chisholm United States-Caribbean Educational Exchange Act of 2008
Sponsor: Rep. Barbara Lee D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 4, 2007
- Committee actionJun 26, 2007
- Passed HouseJul 31, 2007 · 371–55
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 15, 2008 — Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 968.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 176.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 176, Shirley A. Chisholm United States-Caribbean Educational Exchange Act of 2007” on July 20, 2007. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on June 26, 2007</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 20, 2007 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/18855
- CBO publication date
- July 20, 2007
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 176, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/176
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
0f62155812e944760a6626d970a9417c2f622dc6fc2e553ec7f78225cb0afc44
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 176, Shirley A. Chisholm United States-Caribbean Educational Exchange Act of 2007” on July 20, 2007. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on June 26, 2007”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 20, 2007 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/18855
- CBO publication date
- July 20, 2007
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 176, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/176
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
0f62155812e944760a6626d970a9417c2f622dc6fc2e553ec7f78225cb0afc44
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 176, Shirley A. Chisholm United States-Caribbean Educational Exchange Act of 2007” on July 2, 2008. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on June 24, 2008</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 2, 2008 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/20024
- CBO publication date
- July 2, 2008
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 176, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/176
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
0f62155812e944760a6626d970a9417c2f622dc6fc2e553ec7f78225cb0afc44
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 176, Shirley A. Chisholm United States-Caribbean Educational Exchange Act of 2007” on July 2, 2008. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on June 24, 2008”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 2, 2008 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/20024
- CBO publication date
- July 2, 2008
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 176, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/176
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
0f62155812e944760a6626d970a9417c2f622dc6fc2e553ec7f78225cb0afc44
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 reportsCongress.gov lists 2 committee reports for this bill: H. Rept. 110-254 ↗; S. Rept. 110-463 ↗.Source: Congress.gov, reported September 15, 2008 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/110/HRPT/254
https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/110/SRPT/463 - Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 176, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/176
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
0f62155812e944760a6626d970a9417c2f622dc6fc2e553ec7f78225cb0afc44
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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
58 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 56 Democrats
2 of 58 cosponsors (3%) are from the other party.
Howard Berman (D-CA), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), Corrine Brown (D-FL), Dan Burton (R-IN), G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), Donna Christensen (D-VI), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), John Conyers (D-MI), Jim Costa (D-CA), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Artur Davis (D-AL), Danny Davis (D-IL), Bill Delahunt (D-MA), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Eni Faleomavaega (D-AS), Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Luis Fortuno (R-PR), Al Green (D-TX), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX), Michael Honda (D-CA), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Jesse Jackson (D-IL), William Jefferson (D-LA), Eddie Johnson (D-TX), Stephanie Jones (D-OH) and 28 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.