House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Political BIAS Emails Act of 2023
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 14, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 15, 2023 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5495.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. LESKO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 149, September 14, 2023, Page H4348):Article 1 Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: Stopping political bias in email filtering algorithmsSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 14, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 116 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5495, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5495
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 16, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
a8d6b91d92d5b9ef9566a375f415dfc6cb59e76c2896a0ae9ec2375d17bfb886
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 January 16, 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
7 cosponsors — 7 Republicans
0 of 7 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Clay Higgins (R-LA), Darrell Issa (R-CA), August Pfluger (R-TX), Elise Stefanik (R-NY), W. Steube (R-FL), Beth Van Duyne (R-TX).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Debbie Lesko.
- H.R. 1640 (118th) Save Our Gas Stoves Act
- H.R. 6192 (118th) Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act
- H.R. 801 (118th) Securing the Border for Public Health Act of 2023
- H.Con.Res. 14 (118th) Expressing disapproval of the revocation by President Biden of the Presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
- H.R. 1089 (118th) VA Medical Center Facility Transparency Act
- H.Res. 1031 (118th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the situation at the southern border is an invasion.
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.