House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law

Venezuela Humanitarian Assistance and Defense of Democratic Governance Act of 2017

H.R. 2658Introduced May 25, 2017Policy area: International Affairs

Where it went

IntroducedMay 25, 2017
Committee actionSep 28, 2017
Passed HouseDec 7, 2017 · 388–29
Passed Senate—
To the President—
Became law—

Latest action: Dec 11, 2017 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2658.

CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2658, Venezuela Humanitarian Assistance and Defense of Democratic Governance Act of 2017” on November 2, 2017. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on September 28, 2017”.
Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 2, 2017 ↗
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November 2, 2017
Congress.gov bill record
H.R. 2658, 115th Congress
Congress.gov API record
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Record last updated by Congress.gov
April 7, 2025
PORKER copy retrieved
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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. ENGEL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 91, May 25, 2017, Page H4607):
Article I, section 8 of the U.S. Constitution
Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 25, 2017 ↗
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Congress.gov bill record
H.R. 2658, 115th Congress
Congress.gov API record
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Record last updated by Congress.gov
April 7, 2025
PORKER copy retrieved
September 21, 2026
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list 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

23 cosponsors — 9 Republicans, 14 Democrats

9 of 23 cosponsors (39%) are from the other party.

Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Mike Coffman (R-CO), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Paul Cook (R-CA), Charlie Crist (D-FL), Carlos Curbelo (R-FL), Ron DeSantis (R-FL), Val Demings (D-FL), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Daniel Donovan (R-NY), Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Michael McCaul (R-TX), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Albio Sires (D-NJ), Darren Soto (D-FL), Norma Torres (D-CA), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL).

More from the sponsor

Other 115th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Eliot Engel.

Sponsor’s state and district

New York in Congress · NY-16 district

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