House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedJan 18, 2019
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 8, 2019 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 689.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MICHAEL F. DOYLE of Pennsylvania, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 11, January 18, 2019, Page H958):Article 1, Section 8, Clauses 1 and 3 to the U.S. Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 18, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 63 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 689, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/689
- 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.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 689, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 20, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
37 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 35 Democrats
2 of 37 cosponsors (5%) are from the other party.
Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Karen Bass (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Matt Cartwright (D-PA), David Cicilline (D-RI), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Ro Khanna (D-CA), James Langevin (D-RI), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Elaine Luria (D-VA), James McGovern (D-MA), Jerry McNerney (D-CA), Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Harley Rouda (D-CA) and 7 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 116th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Mike Doyle.
- H.R. 1644 (116th) Save the Internet Act of 2019
- H.R. 7310 (116th) Spectrum IT Modernization Act of 2020
- H.R. 5035 (116th) Television Viewer Protection Act of 2019
- H.R. 5000 (116th) SHARE Act
- H.R. 2096 (116th) Energy Storage Tax Incentive and Deployment Act of 2019
- H.R. 1970 (116th) Medicare Access to Radiology Care 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.