House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Pay Our Border Patrol and Customs Agents Act of 2025
Sponsor: Rep. Monica De La Cruz R-TXWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 12, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 12, 2024 — Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9561.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. De La CRUZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 142, September 12, 2024, Page H5231):Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 The single subject of this legislation is: To pay our Border Patrol agents during a potential government shutdown.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 12, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 145 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 9561, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9561
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 20, 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 December 20, 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
19 cosponsors — 18 Republicans, 1 Democrat
1 of 19 cosponsors (5%) are from the other party.
Don Bacon (R-NE), Kat Cammack (R-FL), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR), Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ), Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), Anthony D'Esposito (R-NY), Brad Finstad (R-MN), Tony Gonzales (R-TX), Lance Gooden (R-TX), Michael Guest (R-MS), Thomas Kean (R-NJ), Morgan Luttrell (R-TX), Nancy Mace (R-SC), Nathaniel Moran (R-TX), James Moylan (R-GU), Marie Perez (D-WA), Claudia Tenney (R-NY), Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), Brandon Williams (R-NY).
More from the sponsor
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- H.R. 7480 (118th) Disabled Veterans Housing Support Act
- H.Res. 1065 (118th) Denouncing the Biden administration's immigration policies.
- H.R. 412 (118th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 620 East Pecan Boulevard in McAllen, Texas, as the "Agent Raul H.…
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.