House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Protect Our TEETH Act
Official title: To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to seek to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to carry out a rapid response evidence review of proposed rules relating to fluoride, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver D-MOWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 21, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 21, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4556.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CLEAVER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 124, July 21, 2025, Page H3527):US Cons. art I, Sec. 8, cl 18Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 21, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 29 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4556, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4556
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 21, 2026
- 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 21, 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
12 cosponsors — 12 Democrats
0 of 12 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Wesley Bell (D-MO), Donald Davis (D-NC), Cleo Fields (D-LA), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Seth Magaziner (D-RI), Sarah McBride (D-DE), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Emilia Sykes (D-OH), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Jill Tokuda (D-HI).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Emanuel Cleaver.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 26, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.