House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Audit the Pentagon Act of 2026
Official title: To ensure that the Department of Defense achieves a clean audit opinion on its financial statements, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Mark Pocan D-WIWhere it went
- IntroducedFeb 12, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 12, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7555.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. POCAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 30, February 12, 2026, Page H2220):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 12, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7555, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/7555
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 1, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 12, 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 1, 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
23 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 20 Democrats
3 of 23 cosponsors (13%) are from the other party.
Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Danny Davis (D-IL), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Jesús García (D-IL), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Harriet Hageman (R-WY), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Summer Lee (D-PA), James McGovern (D-MA), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Lateefah Simon (D-CA), Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ).
More from the sponsor
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- H.Res. 704 (119th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction Model undermines beneficiary…
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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.