House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Contract Postal Unit Transparency Act
Official title: To amend title 39, United States Code, to modify the procedures used by the United States Postal Service for the closure or consolidation of contract postal units, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. George Whitesides D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 16, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 16, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5416.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WHITESIDES, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 151, September 16, 2025, Page H4365):Clause 7 of Section 8 or Article I of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 16, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 54 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5416, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5416
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 26, 2025
- 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 September 26, 2025). 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 — 1 Republican, 2 Democrats
1 of 3 cosponsors (33%) are from the other party.
Rick Allen (R-GA), Frank Mrvan (D-IN), Andrea Salinas (D-OR).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. George Whitesides.
- H.R. 6164 (119th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 28201 Franklin Parkway in Santa Clarita, California, as the…
- H.R. 9534 (119th) Wildfire Response Modernization Act
- H.R. 4907 (119th) Statistical Agency Integrity and Independence Act of 2025
- H.R. 5615 (119th) To amend title 32, United States Code, to establish the FireGuard Program as a program of record of the National Guard.
- H.Res. 1557 (119th) Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the rollout of Space Shuttle Enterprise from the Rockwell International plant in Palmdale, California.
- H.R. 10719 (119th) Protecting Kids from Human-Like Chatbots Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.