House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Funding Small Businesses During Shutdown Act
Official title: To ensure continued appropriations for certain Small Business Administration programs during a Government shutdown, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 26, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 26, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5568.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CONAWAY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 158, September 26, 2025, Page H4502):The General Welfare Clause found in Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 26, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 92 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5568, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5568
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 15, 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 October 15, 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
10 cosponsors — 10 Democrats
0 of 10 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Wesley Bell (D-MO), Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Judy Chu (D-CA), Steven Horsford (D-NV), Greg Landsman (D-OH), Sarah McBride (D-DE), Kelly Morrison (D-MN), Johnny Olszewski (D-MD), Hillary Scholten (D-MI), Lateefah Simon (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
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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.