House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
FAST Justice Act
Official title: To amend chapter 77 of title 5, United States Code, to ensure timely rulings by the Merit Systems Protection Board on appeals by Federal employees and applicants for employment.
Sponsor: Rep. James Walkinshaw D-VAWhere it went
- IntroducedOct 8, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 8, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5724.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WALKINSHAW, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 166, October 8, 2025, Page H4529):Article I, Section 8, clause 18Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 8, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 31 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5724, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5724
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 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 19, 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
20 cosponsors — 20 Democrats
0 of 20 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Sarah Elfreth (D-MD), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Steven Horsford (D-NV), Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Timothy Kennedy (D-NY), Greg Landsman (D-OH), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Jennifer McClellan (D-VA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), Haley Stevens (D-MI), Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Dina Titus (D-NV), Eugene Vindman (D-VA), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL).
More from the sponsor
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- H.R. 9448 (119th) Federal Workforce Reproductive Rights Protection Act
Related bills
- S. 2977 (119th) FAST Justice ActIdentical bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.