House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Social Media Use in Clearance Investigations Act of 2019
Sponsor: Rep. Stephen Lynch D-MAWhere it went
- IntroducedFeb 7, 2019
- Committee actionskipped
- Passed HouseFeb 11, 2019 · 377–3
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 12, 2019 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1065.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LYNCH, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 24, February 7, 2019, Page H1463):Art. I, Section 8, Clause 18.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 7, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 29 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1065, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/1065
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 28, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
4b1f5c7dbc035f0bdbda164d02ba4274b923ef79972fc373bf885d25256add1e
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 May 28, 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
2 cosponsors — 2 Republicans
2 of 2 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 116th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Stephen Lynch.
- H.R. 389 (116th) Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Rewards Act
- H.R. 391 (116th) White House Ethics Transparency Act of 2019
- H.R. 3629 (116th) Clarity in Credit Score Formation Act of 2019
- H.R. 587 (116th) To posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods, J. Christopher Stevens, and Sean Smith…
- H.Res. 33 (116th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should take all appropriate measures to ensure that the United States…
- H.R. 1201 (116th) Climate Change National Security Strategy Act of 2019
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 20, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.