House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
DAIRY PRIDE Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 31, 2017
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 3, 2017 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 778.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WELCH, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 16, January 31, 2017, Page H820):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18: The Congress shall have Power To . . . make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 31, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 301 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 778, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/778
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 21, 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 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
32 cosponsors — 21 Republicans, 10 Democrats, 1 independent
22 of 32 cosponsors (69%) are from the other party.
Chris Collins (R-NY), James Comer (R-KY), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Sean Duffy (R-WI), John Faso (R-NY), Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Daniel Kildee (D-MI), Ron Kind (D-WI), Ann Kuster (D-NH), Raul Labrador (R-ID), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Paul Mitchell (I-MI), John Moolenaar (R-MI), Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Richard Nolan (D-MN), Collin Peterson (D-MN), Tom Reed (R-NY), Thomas Rooney (R-FL), Kurt Schrader (D-OR), F. Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Michael Simpson (R-ID), Lloyd Smucker (R-PA), Darren Soto (D-FL), Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Claudia Tenney (R-NY), Glenn Thompson (R-PA), Fred Upton (R-MI) and 2 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 22, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.