House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Combating Global Corruption Act of 2025
Official title: To identify and combat corruption in countries, to establish a tiered list of countries with respect to levels of corruption by their governments and their efforts to combat such corruption, and to evaluate whether foreign persons engaged in significant corruption should be specially designated nationals under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.
Sponsor: Rep. Steve Cohen D-TNWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 14, 2025
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 14, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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. 385.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. COHEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 7, January 14, 2025, Page H149):Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United StatesSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 14, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
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- Statement length
- 71 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 385, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/385
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 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 September 19, 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
5 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 3 Democrats
2 of 5 cosponsors (40%) are from the other party.
Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), William Keating (D-MA), Maria Salazar (R-FL), Eugene Vindman (D-VA), Joe Wilson (R-SC).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Steve Cohen.
- H.R. 144 (119th) Tennessee Valley Authority Salary Transparency Act
- H.R. 1669 (119th) To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the Stop, Observe, Ask, and Respond to Health and Wellness Training Program.
- H.R. 9401 (119th) Latonya Reeves Freedom Act of 2026
- H.R. 5451 (119th) Aviation Funding Stability Act of 2025
- H.R. 5427 (119th) Billionaires Income Tax Act
- H.R. 1056 (119th) To include the Czech Republic in the list of foreign states whose nationals are eligible for admission into the United States as E1…
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.