House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
JUDGES Act of 2024
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 17, 2024
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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Latest action: Sep 17, 2024 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9625.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ISSA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 144, September 17, 2024, Page H5319):Article I, Section 8, clause 18 allows Congress to make all laws ``which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution'' any ``other'' powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States * Note According to the Supreme Court, the Necessary and Proper Clause gives Congress the ``power to make laws for carrying into execution all the Judgments which the Judicial department has power to pronounce'' (Wayman v. Southard, 10 Wheat 1, 22 (1825)), and, thereby, Congress has ``undoubted power to regulate the practice and procedure of federal courts'' See Sibbach v. Wilson & Co., 312 U.S. 1, 9 (1941). The single subject of this legislation is: To authorize additional…Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 17, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 772 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 9625, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9625
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 5, 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
44 cosponsors — 30 Republicans, 13 Democrats, 1 independent
13 of 44 cosponsors (30%) are from the other party.
Don Bacon (R-NE), Cliff Bentz (R-OR), Stephanie Bice (R-OK), Larry Bucshon (R-IN), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ), J. Correa (D-CA), Anthony D'Esposito (R-NY), Monica De La Cruz (R-TX), Vince Fong (R-CA), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Tony Gonzales (R-TX), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Al Green (D-TX), Ashley Hinson (R-IA), Wesley Hunt (R-TX), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Kevin Kiley (I-CA), Young Kim (R-CA), Nick LaLota (R-NY), Nicholas Langworthy (R-NY), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Laurel Lee (R-FL), Debbie Lesko (R-AZ), Celeste Maloy (R-UT), Michael McCaul (R-TX), Cory Mills (R-FL) and 14 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa.
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- H.R. 423 (118th) Pala Band of Mission Indians Land Transfer Act of 2023
- H.R. 6610 (118th) Passport System Reform and Backlog Prevention Act
- H.R. 6443 (118th) Jamul Indian Village Land Transfer Act
- H.R. 1753 (118th) To ensure that certain members of the Armed Forces who served in female cultural support teams receive proper credit for such service.
- H.R. 1631 (118th) Pro Codes 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.