House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
Willie O’Ree Congressional Gold Medal Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 26, 2021
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 26, 2021 — Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2249.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. QUIGLEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 57, March 26, 2021, Page H1694):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 26, 2021 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 65 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2249, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/2249
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 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
294 cosponsors — 81 Republicans, 213 Democrats
81 of 294 cosponsors (28%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Colin Allred (D-TX), Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), Cynthia Axne (D-IA), Don Bacon (R-NE), Troy Balderson (R-OH), Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Karen Bass (D-CA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Ami Bera (D-CA), Jack Bergman (R-MI), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Carolyn Bourdeaux (D-GA), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Mo Brooks (R-AL), Anthony Brown (D-MD), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Larry Bucshon (R-IN), Tim Burchett (R-TN), Michael Burgess (R-TX) and 264 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 117th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Mike Quigley.
- H.R. 3537 (117th) Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Act
- H.R. 263 (117th) Big Cat Public Safety Act
- H.R. 2485 (117th) Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act
- H.R. 22 (117th) Congressional Budget Justification Transparency Act of 2021
- H.R. 4345 (117th) Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2022
- H.R. 8254 (117th) Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2023
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 16, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.