House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
McCarran-Walter Technical Corrections Act
Official title: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the right of members of a federally recognized Indian Tribe in the United States and First Nations individuals in Canada to cross the borders of the United States.
Sponsor: Rep. Timothy Kennedy D-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 22, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 22, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4596.
- 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. 125, July 22, 2025, Page H3554):Clause 3, Section 8, Article 1 of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 22, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 50 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4596, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4596
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 17, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
94355383dea9556c0b6e7a8244fb5b28bbf09f970205d93c89b557554ce4fc81
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 July 17, 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
4 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 1 Democrat
3 of 4 cosponsors (75%) are from the other party.
Russ Fulcher (R-ID), Nicholas Langworthy (R-NY), Emily Randall (D-WA), Michael Simpson (R-ID).
More from the sponsor
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Related bills
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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.