House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedNov 16, 2015
- Committee actionNov 18, 2015
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 18, 2015 — Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4001.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4001, Fix the Footnotes Act of 2015” on February 9, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on November 18, 2015”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 9, 2016 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51230
- CBO publication date
- February 9, 2016
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4001, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4001
- 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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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BUCK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 168, November 16, 2015, Page H8241):Article I, Section 8, Clause 18, of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 16, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 52 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4001, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4001
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 12, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
c67012c8cc8a7d842e495f1e6e7330e0680b8ff518c19592ffc71be1a5345f7c
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 committee report (as of August 12, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4001, last updated August 12, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
7 cosponsors — 5 Republicans, 2 Democrats
2 of 7 cosponsors (29%) are from the other party.
Mike Bishop (R-MI), John Conyers (D-MI), J. Forbes (R-VA), Robert Goodlatte (R-VA), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), John Ratcliffe (R-TX), Mimi Walters (R-CA).
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Ken Buck.
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- H.R. 4220 (114th) Water and Agriculture Tax Reform Act of 2016
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- H.R. 4371 (114th) Article I Consolidated Appropriations Amendments, 2016
- H.R. 4760 (114th) Blue Lives Matter Act of 2016
- H.R. 2258 (114th) To amend section 320301 of title 54, United States Code, to modify the authority of the President of the United States to declare national…
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.