House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Debt-to-GDP Transparency and Stabilization Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 11, 2024
- Committee actionJan 18, 2024
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 18, 2024 — Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6957.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 6957, Debt-to-GDP Transparency and Stabilization Act” on January 24, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Budget on January 18, 2024”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 24, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59913
- CBO publication date
- January 24, 2024
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6957, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6957
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 8, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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. SMUCKER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 6, January 11, 2024, Page H107):Clause 3 of section 8 article 1 of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: The Debt-to-GDP Stabilization Act requires that the President's annual budget submission to Congress and any concurrent resolution on the budget include the current ratio of the public debt to the estimated gross domestic product (GDP).Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 11, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 331 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6957, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6957
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 8, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
5ac25ba9292d1c14dab6a3e0b74c35324e533324af17ee6aaef31b232a44d571
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of September 8, 2026). 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
26 cosponsors — 17 Republicans, 9 Democrats
9 of 26 cosponsors (35%) are from the other party.
Don Bacon (R-NE), Jack Bergman (R-MI), Josh Brecheen (R-OK), Tim Burchett (R-TN), Michael Burgess (R-TX), Ben Cline (R-VA), Donald Davis (D-NC), Chuck Edwards (R-NC), Michelle Fischbach (R-MN), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Jared Golden (D-ME), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), John James (R-MI), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Susie Lee (D-NV), Lisa McClain (R-MI), Daniel Meuser (R-PA), Ralph Norman (R-SC), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Marie Perez (D-WA), Scott Peters (D-CA), August Pfluger (R-TX), Dean Phillips (D-MN), Hillary Scholten (D-MI), Thomas Suozzi (D-NY), Rudy Yakym (R-IN).
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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.