House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Great Lakes and National Weather Service Funding Protection Act
Official title: To limit the impoundment, transfer, or reprogramming of certain Federal funds made available to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Timothy Kennedy D-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedApr 10, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 10, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2856.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KENNEDY of New York, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 65, April 10, 2025, Page H1602):Clause 3, Section 8, Article 1 of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 10, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
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- 50 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2856, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2856
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 13, 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 May 13, 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
11 cosponsors — 11 Democrats
0 of 11 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Shontel Brown (D-OH), Danny Davis (D-IL), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Bradley Schneider (D-IL), Hillary Scholten (D-MI), Haley Stevens (D-MI), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 14, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.