House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Lady Liberty Act of 2023
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 15, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 15, 2023 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4156.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CONNOLLY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 105, June 15, 2023, Page H2960):Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: This bill sets a floor of 125,000 for the maximum number of refugees who may be admitted into the United States each fiscal year.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 15, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 193 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4156, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4156
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 24, 2024
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 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 July 24, 2024). 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
25 cosponsors — 25 Democrats
0 of 25 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Greg Casar (D-TX), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Jesús García (D-IL), Al Green (D-TX), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), James McGovern (D-MA), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Adam Smith (D-WA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Gerald Connolly.
- H.Res. 1056 (118th) Recognizing the importance of trilateral cooperation among the United States, Japan, and South Korea.
- H.R. 1176 (118th) Taiwan International Solidarity Act
- H.R. 4016 (118th) Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act
- H.R. 7527 (118th) Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act of 2024
- H.R. 5532 (118th) Russia-North Korea Cooperation Sanctions Act
- H.R. 4157 (118th) Not Just a Number Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 15, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.