House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Social Security Identity Defense Act of 2015
Sponsor: Rep. Glenn Grothman R-WIWhere it went
- IntroducedMay 18, 2015
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 16, 2015 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2398.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GROTHMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 76, May 18, 2015, Page H3309):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 which, in part, states: The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, . . . and the Sixteenth Amendment which states: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 18, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 381 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2398, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/2398
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
993c76698179c5bcbd325e615f1b2f7db237423f549c955ac3c61344ac25056c
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
4 cosponsors — 4 Republicans
0 of 4 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Susan Brooks (R-IN), Pete Olson (R-TX), David Schweikert (R-AZ), F. Sensenbrenner (R-WI).
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Glenn Grothman.
- H.Res. 673 (114th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Internal Revenue Service should provide printed copies of Internal Revenue…
- H.R. 6171 (114th) To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to eliminate the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to grant a waiver from the work…
- H.R. 2306 (114th) Obamacare Marriage Penalty Elimination Act
- H.R. 2956 (114th) Preventing Illegal Immigrants From Abusing Tax Welfare Act of 2015
- H.R. 2792 (114th) Manufacturers First Act of 2015
- H.R. 3507 (114th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 99 West 2nd Street in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, as the "Lieutenant…
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.