House bill · 110th Congress · Public Law 110-139
To provide that the great hall of the Capitol Visitor Center shall be known as Emancipation Hall.
Became law on Dec 18, 2007.
Sponsor: Rep. Zach Wamp R-TNWhere it went
- IntroducedAug 2, 2007
- Committee actionOct 31, 2007
- Passed HouseNov 13, 2007 · 398–6
- Passed SenateDec 6, 2007 · by unanimous consent
- To the PresidentDec 11, 2007
- Became lawDec 18, 2007
Latest action: Dec 18, 2007 — Became Public Law No: 110-139.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3315.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3315, A bill to provide that the great hall of the Capitol Visitor Center shall be known as "Emancipation Hall"” on November 1, 2007. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on October 31, 2007</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 1, 2007 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/19291
- CBO publication date
- November 1, 2007
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3315, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/3315
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
27c256ecaded83cdda11e9377254c9e64228427614914f29f7ae1000d6280224
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3315, A bill to provide that the great hall of the Capitol Visitor Center shall be known as "Emancipation Hall"” on November 1, 2007. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on October 31, 2007”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 1, 2007 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/19291
- CBO publication date
- November 1, 2007
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3315, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/3315
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
27c256ecaded83cdda11e9377254c9e64228427614914f29f7ae1000d6280224
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. 110-436 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on November 8, 2007.Source: Congress.gov, reported November 8, 2007 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/110/HRPT/436
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3315, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/3315
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
27c256ecaded83cdda11e9377254c9e64228427614914f29f7ae1000d6280224
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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
227 cosponsors — 113 Republicans, 114 Democrats
114 of 227 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
Robert Aderholt (R-AL), Rodney Alexander (R-LA), Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Joe Baca (D-CA), Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Spencer Bachus (R-AL), J. Barrett (R-SC), Xavier Becerra (D-CA), Howard Berman (D-CA), Judy Biggert (R-IL), Rob Bishop (R-UT), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Timothy Bishop (D-NY), Jo Bonner (R-AL), Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), John Boozman (R-AR), Dan Boren (D-OK), Charles Boustany (R-LA), Allen Boyd (D-FL), Robert Brady (D-PA), Corrine Brown (D-FL), Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL), Dan Burton (R-IN), G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), Stephen Buyer (R-IN), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Dave Camp (R-MI), Chris Cannon (R-UT), Shelley Capito (R-WV), Dennis Cardoza (D-CA) and 197 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 110th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Zach Wamp.
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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.