House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Climate Change National Security Strategy Act of 2019
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 13, 2019
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 14, 2019 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1201.
- 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. 28, February 13, 2019, Page H1585):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 February 13, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 268 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1201, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/1201
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 6, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 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 June 6, 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
45 cosponsors — 45 Democrats
0 of 45 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Sean Casten (D-IL), David Cicilline (D-RI), Gilbert Cisneros (D-CA), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Charlie Crist (D-FL), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Bill Foster (D-IL), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Debra Haaland (D-NM), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Denny Heck (D-WA), James Himes (D-CT), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Joseph Kennedy (D-MA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Ann Kuster (D-NH), James Langevin (D-RI), Ben Luján (D-NM), Betty McCollum (D-MN) and 15 more.
More from the sponsor
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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.