House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
What You Can Do For Your Country Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 1, 2019
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 1, 2019 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2441.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SARBANES, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 71, May 1, 2019, Page H3405):Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution under the General Welfare ClauseSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 1, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 78 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2441, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/2441
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 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 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
82 cosponsors — 82 Democrats
0 of 82 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Anthony Brown (D-MD), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Ed Case (D-HI), Judy Chu (D-CA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Angie Craig (D-MN), Sharice Davids (D-KS), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Mike Doyle (D-PA), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Bill Foster (D-IL), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Jesús García (D-IL), Jared Golden (D-ME) and 52 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 116th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. John Sarbanes.
- H.R. 1 (116th) For the People Act of 2019
- H.R. 2075 (116th) School-Based Health Centers Reauthorization Act of 2020
- H.R. 2427 (116th) Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network Reauthorization Act of 2019
- H.R. 5684 (116th) Chesapeake Bay Science, Education, and Ecosystem Enhancement Act of 2019
- H.R. 4707 (116th) Federal Firefighter Flexibility and Fairness Act
- H.R. 6037 (116th) Fair Access to Legal Counsel Act of 2020
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.