House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Fraud Accountability and Recovery Act
Official title: To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit the President from providing assistance to the government of any country that has failed to extradite an individual that has been convicted of committing fraud against the United States or that has failed to take all appropriate measures with respect to assisting the recoupment of those funds.
Sponsor: Rep. Brad Finstad R-MNWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 23, 2025
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 23, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5548.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FINSTAD, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 156, September 23, 2025, Page H4494):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 23, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 31 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5548, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5548
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 14, 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 July 14, 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
13 cosponsors — 13 Republicans
0 of 13 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Tom Barrett (R-MI), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Mike Bost (R-IL), Tim Burchett (R-TN), Byron Donalds (R-FL), Pat Fallon (R-TX), Michelle Fischbach (R-MN), Mike Haridopolos (R-FL), Nancy Mace (R-SC), August Pfluger (R-TX), Derek Schmidt (R-KS), Pete Stauber (R-MN), David Taylor (R-OH).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Brad Finstad.
- H.R. 2931 (119th) Save SBA from Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025
- H.R. 8881 (119th) SBA Artificial Intelligence Utilization Act of 2026
- H.R. 9576 (119th) National Fraud Enforcement Division Act of 2026
- H.R. 1163 (119th) Prove It Act
- H.R. 10353 (119th) SBIC Reporting Modernization Act of 2026
- H.R. 6978 (119th) Preserving Integrity in Immigration Benefits Act
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.