House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Connect America Act of 2019
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 13, 2019
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 14, 2019 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3278.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LOEBSACK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 99, June 13, 2019, Page H4696):Article 1, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 13, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3278, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3278
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 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 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
17 cosponsors — 17 Democrats
0 of 17 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Mike Doyle (D-PA), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Ann Kuster (D-NH), Ben Luján (D-NM), Doris Matsui (D-CA), Jerry McNerney (D-CA), Tom O'Halleran (D-AZ), Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Marc Veasey (D-TX), Peter Welch (D-VT).
More from the sponsor
Other 116th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. David Loebsack.
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- H.R. 3762 (116th) DOC Access Act of 2019
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- H.R. 3235 (116th) Access to Genetic Counselor Services Act of 2019
- H.Res. 298 (116th) Expressing support for the designation of the week of April 8, 2019, through April 12, 2019, as National Specialized Instructional Support…
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.