House bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
Postal Employee Appeal Rights Amendments Act of 2013
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedApr 9, 2013
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 9, 2013 — Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1431.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CONNOLLY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H1859):Article 1, Section 8, of the United States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, record updated December 5, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 55 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1431, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/1431
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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.
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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
39 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 37 Democrats
2 of 39 cosponsors (5%) are from the other party.
Corrine Brown (D-FL), Cheri Bustos (D-IL), Michael Capuano (D-MA), André Carson (D-IN), Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Donna Christensen (D-VI), David Cicilline (D-RI), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Sam Farr (D-CA), Alan Grayson (D-FL), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Colleen Hanabusa (D-HI), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Denny Heck (D-WA), Michael Honda (D-CA), Steven Horsford (D-NV), Jared Huffman (D-CA), David Joyce (R-OH), William Keating (D-MA), Ann Kuster (D-NH), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM), Daniel Maffei (D-NY), James Moran (D-VA), Patrick Murphy (D-FL), Ed Perlmutter (D-CO), Pedro Pierluisi (D-PR) and 9 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 23, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.