House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
DEBT Act
Official title: To amend title 31, United States Code, to require the Secretary of the Treasury to appear before Congress before the debt limit is reached or extraordinary measures are taken to prevent default.
Sponsor: Rep. David Schweikert R-AZWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 14, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 14, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 402.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SCHWEIKERT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 7, January 14, 2025, Page H149):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of the U.S. Constitution:Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 14, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 57 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 402, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/402
- 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
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. David Schweikert.
- H.R. 7971 (119th) Taxpayer Experience Improvement Act
- H.R. 4242 (119th) Innovate Less Lethal to De-Escalate Tax Modernization Act
- H.R. 9772 (119th) Foreign Funding Transparency Act
- H.R. 7972 (119th) Taxpayer Workforce Modernization Act
- H.R. 2653 (119th) Manifest Modernization Act of 2025
- H.R. 10218 (119th) Advancing American Innovation Act
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.