House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Foreign Agents Transparency Act
Official title: To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended to clarify that the obligation of individuals who formerly served as agents of foreign principals to register as foreign agents under the Act is continuing with respect to activities carried out previously on behalf of such foreign principals, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Ben Cline R-VAWhere it went
- IntroducedMay 7, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 7, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3229.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CLINE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 76, May 7, 2025, Page H1910):Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 7, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 45 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3229, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3229
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 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 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
6 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 3 Democrats
3 of 6 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
Donald Davis (D-NC), Dusty Johnson (R-SD), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), John Moolenaar (R-MI), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Robert Wittman (R-VA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Ben Cline.
- H.R. 7730 (119th) Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment Act
- H.R. 2675 (119th) Protecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act
- H.R. 4642 (119th) Fiscal Contingency Preparedness Act
- H.R. 421 (119th) Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act
- H.R. 6622 (119th) Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2025
- H.R. 404 (119th) Hearing Protection Act
Related bills
- S. 981 (119th) Foreign Agents Transparency ActIdentical 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.