House bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
To designate the buildings occupied by the Department of Transportation located at 1200 New Jersey Avenue, Southeast, in the District of Columbia as the "James L. Oberstar United States Department of Transportation Building Complex".
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 9, 2014
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 12, 2014 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4644.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LIPINSKI, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H4060):Clause 2 of Section 3 of Article IV of the Constitution: The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States;Source: Congress.gov, record updated December 3, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 218 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4644, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/4644
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 3, 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 3, 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
59 cosponsors — 5 Republicans, 54 Democrats
5 of 59 cosponsors (8%) are from the other party.
Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Timothy Bishop (D-NY), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), Corrine Brown (D-FL), Cheri Bustos (D-IL), Michael Capuano (D-MA), André Carson (D-IN), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), John Delaney (D-MD), John Duncan (R-TN), Donna Edwards (D-MD), Keith Ellison (D-MN), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Elizabeth Esty (D-CT), Lois Frankel (D-FL), John Garamendi (D-CA), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Janice Hahn (D-CA), Brian Higgins (D-NY), Michael Honda (D-CA), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Eddie Johnson (D-TX), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ) and 29 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 113th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Daniel Lipinski.
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- H.Res. 483 (113th) Supporting the goals and ideals of National Engineers Week.
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.