House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Immigration Visa Efficiency and Security Act of 2023
Sponsor: Rep. Richard McCormick R-GAWhere it went
- IntroducedDec 1, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 1, 2023 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6542.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. McCORMICK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 198, December 1, 2023, Page H6080):Clause 18 of Section 8 of Article 1. The single subject of this legislation is: ImmigrationSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 1, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 91 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6542, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6542
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 6, 2025
- 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 December 6, 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
33 cosponsors — 15 Republicans, 18 Democrats
18 of 33 cosponsors (55%) are from the other party.
Colin Allred (D-TX), Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), Don Bacon (R-NE), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Donald Davis (D-NC), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Thomas Kean (R-NJ), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Michael McCaul (R-TX), Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Wiley Nickel (D-NC), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Cathy Rodgers (R-WA), Maria Salazar (R-FL), Bradley Schneider (D-IL), Kim Schrier (D-WA), Adam Smith (D-WA), Lloyd Smucker (R-PA), Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), Lori Trahan (D-MA), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ), Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) and 3 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Richard McCormick.
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- H.R. 8361 (118th) Economic Espionage Prevention Act
- H.R. 6602 (118th) To amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 relating to the review of the interagency dispute resolution process.
- H.Res. 845 (118th) Censuring Representative Rashida Tlaib for promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for…
- H.Res. 1348 (118th) Urging the Government of Nigeria to immediately release Tigran Gambaryan from imprisonment.
- H.R. 3915 (118th) Aviation Weather Improvement 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.