House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
REPUBLIC Act
Official title: To strengthen and enhance the congressional power of the purse, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Brendan Boyle D-PAWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 9, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 9, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Transportation and Infrastructure, Rules, Foreign Affairs, the Judiciary, and Energy and Commerce, 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. 5220.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 147, September 9, 2025, Page H4165):Article I, Section 8, clause 1; Article I, Section 8, clause 18; and Article I, Section 9, clause 7 of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 9, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 134 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5220, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5220
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 28, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 29, 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 28, 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
23 cosponsors — 23 Democrats
0 of 23 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Gabe Amo (D-RI), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Becca Balint (D-VT), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Ed Case (D-HI), Judy Chu (D-CA), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), John Mannion (D-NY), Morgan McGarvey (D-KY), James McGovern (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Scott Peters (D-CA), Stacey Plaskett (D-VI), Robert Scott (D-VA), Paul Tonko (D-NY), James Walkinshaw (D-VA), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Brendan Boyle.
- H.R. 2319 (119th) Women and Lung Cancer Research and Preventive Services Act of 2025
- H.R. 2671 (119th) Tax Fairness for Workers Act
- H.R. 2753 (119th) Hands Off Medicaid and SNAP Act of 2025
- H.Con.Res. 16 (119th) Providing for a joint session of the Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, July 2, 2026, in honor of the semiquincentennial…
- H.R. 5708 (119th) Federal Employees Civil Relief Act
- H.R. 10251 (119th) Back-to-School Supplies Affordability Act
Related bills
- H.R. 10132 (119th) ARTICLE ONE ActRelated bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 29, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.