House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Nick Shirley Congressional Gold Medal Act
Official title: To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Nick Shirley, in recognition of exemplary investigative journalism that uncovered waste, fraud, and abuse perpetrated against American taxpayers.
Sponsor: Rep. Elijah Crane R-AZWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 6, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 6, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6942.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CRANE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 3, January 6, 2026, Page H12):article 1 section 8 clause 18Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 6, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 29 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6942, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6942
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 22, 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 January 22, 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
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Elijah Crane.
- H.R. 837 (119th) To require the Secretary of Agriculture to convey the Pleasant Valley Ranger District Administrative Site to Gila County, Arizona.
- H.R. 5729 (119th) North Rim Restoration Act
- H.R. 1829 (119th) Apache County and Navajo County Conveyance Act of 2026
- H.R. 495 (119th) Subterranean Border Defense Act
- H.R. 3334 (119th) USCP Empowerment Act of 2025
- H.R. 2705 (119th) Nuclear Family Priority Act
Related bills
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
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.