House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
CARGO Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the National Institutes of Health from awarding any support for an activity or program that uses live animals in research unless the research occurs in the United States, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Troy Nehls R-TXWhere it went
- IntroducedFeb 6, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 6, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1085.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. NEHLS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 25, February 6, 2025, Page H557):Article 1, Section 8 of the US ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 6, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 43 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1085, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1085
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 6, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 7, 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 October 6, 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
29 cosponsors — 21 Republicans, 8 Democrats
8 of 29 cosponsors (28%) are from the other party.
Robert Bresnahan (R-PA), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Donald Davis (D-NC), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Gabe Evans (R-CO), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Lance Gooden (R-TX), Abraham Hamadeh (R-AZ), Josh Harder (D-CA), Diana Harshbarger (R-TN), Thomas Kean (R-NJ), Jennifer Kiggans (R-VA), Young Kim (R-CA), Nicholas Langworthy (R-NY), Nancy Mace (R-SC), Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Zachary Nunn (R-IA), David Schweikert (R-AZ), Christopher Smith (R-NJ), W. Steube (R-FL), Dina Titus (D-NV), Jill Tokuda (D-HI), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ), Randy Weber (R-TX).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Troy Nehls.
- H.R. 695 (119th) Medal of Honor Act
- H.R. 309 (119th) National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support, and Community Outreach Act
- H.R. 2071 (119th) Save Our Shrimpers Act
- H.R. 3410 (119th) Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act
- H.R. 7553 (119th) Aviation Innovation and Global Competitiveness Act
- H.R. 4711 (119th) REMOVE Act
Related bills
- S. 1802 (119th) CARGO Act of 2025Related bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 7, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.