House bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
To authorize a Wall of Remembrance as part of the Korean War Veterans Memorial and to allow certain private contributions to fund that Wall of Remembrance.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 18, 2013
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 10, 2014 — Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 318.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HALL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H178):The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is the power of Congress to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States, as enumerated in Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 294 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 318, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/318
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 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 April 7, 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
70 cosponsors — 40 Republicans, 29 Democrats, 1 independent
30 of 70 cosponsors (43%) are from the other party.
Ron Barber (D-AZ), Lou Barletta (R-PA), Joe Barton (R-TX), Dan Benishek (R-MI), Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), Robert Brady (D-PA), G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), Howard Coble (R-NC), Mike Coffman (R-CO), Tom Cole (R-OK), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), John Conyers (D-MI), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), John Delaney (D-MD), John Dingell (D-MI), Donna Edwards (D-MD), Christopher Gibson (R-NY), Robert Goodlatte (R-VA), Tom Graves (R-GA), Al Green (D-TX), Gene Green (D-TX), Tim Griffin (R-AR), H. Griffith (R-VA), Michael Grimm (R-NY), Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Richard Hanna (R-NY), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), James Himes (D-CT), Randy Hultgren (R-IL), Bill Johnson (R-OH) and 40 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.