House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act of 2022
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 3, 2022
- Committee actionMay 11, 2022
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 11, 2022 — Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 16.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7647.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 7647, Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act of 2022” on September 19, 2022. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on May 11, 2022”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 19, 2022 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58489
- CBO publication date
- September 19, 2022
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7647, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/7647
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 3, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
99e155ecdad67e3b4f33b5af97a7428564287e4e6fe2caec7b19f3101dbf0ec6
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 168, No. 73, May 3, 2022, Page H4714):This bill is enacted pursuant to Article I, section 8, clause 18 of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 3, 2022 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 99 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7647, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/7647
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 3, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
99e155ecdad67e3b4f33b5af97a7428564287e4e6fe2caec7b19f3101dbf0ec6
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of January 3, 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
66 cosponsors — 66 Democrats
0 of 66 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Karen Bass (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Cori Bush (D-MO), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Sean Casten (D-IL), Kathy Castor (D-FL), David Cicilline (D-RI), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Mike Doyle (D-PA), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Al Green (D-TX), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Mondaire Jones (D-NY), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Daniel Kildee (D-MI), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Barbara Lee (D-CA) and 36 more.
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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.