House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
End the Threat of Default Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 20, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 17, 2024 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 415.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FOSTER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 13, January 20, 2023, Page H251):This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 and 18 of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 20, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 142 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 415, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/415
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
cea15251a23bbc6acba806a56cd44a00f26afa3416dac6965db7e32d9aa72d36
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
48 cosponsors — 48 Democrats
0 of 48 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Becca Balint (D-VT), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Julia Brownley (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Greg Casar (D-TX), Sean Casten (D-IL), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Jim Costa (D-CA), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Danny Davis (D-IL), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Jesús García (D-IL), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), James Himes (D-CT), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Sara Jacobs (D-CA), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), James McGovern (D-MA), Gregory Meeks (D-NY) and 18 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 14, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.