House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Enforce Existing Gun Laws Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 25, 2015
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 9, 2015 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2939.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. RANGEL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 103, June 25, 2015, Page H4773):Article I, Section 8, Clauses 3 The Congress shall have Power * * * to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 25, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 168 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2939, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/2939
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 12, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 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 August 12, 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
27 cosponsors — 27 Democrats
0 of 27 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Katherine Clark (D-MA), John Conyers (D-MI), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), James Himes (D-CT), Michael Honda (D-CA), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), William Keating (D-MA), Robin Kelly (D-IL), James Langevin (D-RI), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Sander Levin (D-MI), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Marc Veasey (D-TX).
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Charles Rangel.
- H.Con.Res. 40 (114th) Encouraging reunions of divided Korean American families.
- H.R. 509 (114th) Student Loan Interest Deduction Act of 2015
- H.R. 403 (114th) Free Trade With Cuba Act
- H.R. 634 (114th) Export Freedom to Cuba Act of 2015
- H.R. 635 (114th) Promoting American Agricultural and Medical Exports to Cuba Act of 2015
- H.R. 2516 (114th) VETS Act of 2015
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.