House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
American Seabed Protection Act
Official title: To prohibit certain mining activities on the deep seabed and Outer Continental Shelf, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 23, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 4, 2025 — Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E86-87)
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 664.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CASE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 14, January 23, 2025, Page H388):Section 8 of article 1 of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 23, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 42 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 664, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/664
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 16, 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 16, 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
10 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 8 Democrats
2 of 10 cosponsors (20%) are from the other party.
Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), James Moylan (R-GU), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Aumua Amata Radewagen (R-AS), Deborah Ross (D-NC), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Ed Case.
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- H.Con.Res. 24 (119th) Authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for an event to celebrate the birthday of King Kamehameha I.
- H.R. 3332 (119th) Pacific Partnership Act
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- H.Res. 774 (119th) Expressing support for the recognition of the month of October 2025 as Filipino American History Month and celebrating the history and…
- H.R. 562 (119th) BLUE Pacific 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.