House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Congressional MRA Act
Official title: To require any amounts remaining in the Members' Representational Allowance at the end of a fiscal year to be deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit reduction or to reduce the Federal debt, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Jodey Arrington R-TXWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 11, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 11, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5305.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ARRINGTON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 149, September 11, 2025, Page H4265):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 11, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5305, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5305
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 11, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 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 11, 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
3 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 1 Democrat
1 of 3 cosponsors (33%) are from the other party.
Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Eugene Vindman (D-VA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Jodey Arrington.
- H.R. 1 (119th) An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.
- H.Con.Res. 113 (119th) Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2027 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary…
- H.Con.Res. 14 (119th) Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary…
- H.Res. 492 (119th) Directing the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make a correction in the engrossment of H.R. 1.
- H.R. 842 (119th) Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
- H.R. 8781 (119th) Title IX Clarification Act of 2026
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.