House bill · 112th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedNov 3, 2011
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 29, 2012 — Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3337.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. AKIN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H7331):Article I, section 8 of the Constitution of the United States.Source: Congress.gov, record updated December 5, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 62 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3337, 112th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/3337
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 25, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
64ad50e586ea2f971c6323510d74cfe5375633bba0b7621968d05f2aa199eedf
PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3337, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 25, 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
81 cosponsors — 36 Republicans, 45 Democrats
45 of 81 cosponsors (56%) are from the other party.
Joe Baca (D-CA), Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Dan Benishek (R-MI), Rick Berg (R-ND), Shelley Berkley (D-NV), Diane Black (R-TN), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), Leonard Boswell (D-IA), Russ Carnahan (D-MO), André Carson (D-IN), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), David Cicilline (D-RI), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), John Conyers (D-MI), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Mark Critz (D-PA), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Donna Edwards (D-MD), Bob Filner (D-CA), Charles Fleischmann (R-TN), J. Forbes (R-VA), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Tim Griffin (R-AR), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), Richard Hanna (R-NY), Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) and 51 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 26, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.