House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedJun 1, 2020
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 1, 2020 — Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7068.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CLYBURN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 166, No. 101, June 1, 2020, Page H2363):The Elections Clause of the United States Constitution gives Congress sweeping power to regulate the time, place, and manner of Federal elections (Article I, section 4 of the Constitution of the United States; see also Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., 570 U.S. 1 (2013)). Congress also has enforcement power under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 1, 2020 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 412 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7068, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/7068
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 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 December 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7068, last updated December 6, 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
87 cosponsors — 87 Democrats
0 of 87 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Karen Bass (D-CA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Anthony Brown (D-MD), Julia Brownley (D-CA), G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), André Carson (D-IN), Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Ed Case (D-HI), Sean Casten (D-IL), Kathy Castor (D-FL), David Cicilline (D-RI), Gilbert Cisneros (D-CA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Wm. Clay (D-MO), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Tj Cox (D-CA), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Danny Davis (D-IL), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Val Demings (D-FL), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Mike Doyle (D-PA), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Dwight Evans (D-PA) and 57 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 116th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. James Clyburn.
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- H.R. 1943 (116th) Community Health Center and Primary Care Workforce Expansion Act of 2019
- H.R. 6807 (116th) VoteSafe 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.