House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Stop Stealing Our Jobs Act
Official title: To prohibit any Executive agency from terminating employees during any period in which there is a lapse in appropriations, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick D-FLWhere it went
- IntroducedOct 3, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 3, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5676.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. CHERFILUS-McCORMICK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 163, October 3, 2025, Page H4517):Article 1 Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 3, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 19 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5676, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5676
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- November 1, 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 November 1, 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
16 cosponsors — 16 Democrats
0 of 16 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Wesley Bell (D-MO), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Danny Davis (D-IL), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Timothy Kennedy (D-NY), Greg Landsman (D-OH), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Nellie Pou (D-NJ), Raul Ruiz (D-CA), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Darren Soto (D-FL), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Dina Titus (D-NV).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick.
- H.R. 1597 (119th) Compassion for Vulnerable and Struggling Workers Act
- H.R. 1114 (119th) L’Ouverture Economic Development Plan for Haiti Act of 2025
- H.R. 3489 (119th) Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Physicist Pay Cap Relief Act
- H.R. 4586 (119th) AIDA
- H.Res. 829 (119th) Recognizing the significance of equal pay and the pay disparity between disabled women and both disabled and nondisabled men.
- H.R. 2927 (119th) All-Americans Tax Relief Act of 2025
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.