House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
No Budget, No Pay Act
Official title: To provide that the salaries of Members of a House of Congress will be held in escrow if that House has not agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget for the next fiscal year by April 15.
Sponsor: Rep. Robert Wittman R-VAWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 3, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 3, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 208.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WITTMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 1, January 3, 2025, Page H43):Article 1, Section 6 of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: failure to pass congressional appropriaitonsSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 128 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 208, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/208
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- November 20, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 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 November 20, 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
3 cosponsors — 3 Republicans
0 of 3 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Randy Fine (R-FL), Jennifer Kiggans (R-VA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Robert Wittman.
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- H.R. 7889 (119th) AWRC Act of 2025
- H.R. 906 (119th) Foreign Adversary Communications Transparency Act
- H.R. 207 (119th) SHARKED Act of 2025
- H.Con.Res. 62 (119th) Authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for an event to unveil the statue of Barbara Rose Johns.
Related bills
- H.R. 113 (119th) Budget Process Enhancement ActRelated bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.