H.Res. 937 · 117th Congress

Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to preserve liberty by operating within the enumerated powers in the Constitution of the United States and its founding principles.

Introduced on Feb 22, 2022 by Madison Cawthorn (R-NC-11). Latest action (Nov 1, 2022): Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
Feb 22, 2022
Cosponsors
0
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics
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Progress

The furthest stage the measure reached. Simple and concurrent resolutions do not go to the President.

  1. Introduced
  2. 2Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers

Subjects

  • Abortion
  • Advisory bodies
  • Agricultural trade
  • Air quality
  • Alternative and renewable resources
  • Asia
  • Border security and unlawful immigration
  • Budget deficits and national debt
  • Cardiovascular and respiratory health
  • China
  • Climate change and greenhouse gases
  • Competition and antitrust
  • Computers and information technology
  • Congressional oversight
  • Currency
  • Dams and canals
  • Defense spending
  • Department of Agriculture
  • Department of Commerce
  • Department of Defense
  • Department of Education
  • Department of Energy
  • Department of Health and Human Services
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • Department of Labor
  • Department of Transportation
  • Department of the Interior
  • Detention of persons
  • Digital media
  • Economic development
  • Economic performance and conditions
  • Electric power generation and transmission
  • Emergency medical services and trauma care
  • Employee benefits and pensions
  • Employment discrimination and employee rights
  • Energy research
  • Energy storage, supplies, demand
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
  • Executive agency funding and structure
  • Family relationships
  • Firearms and explosives
  • Foreign language and bilingual programs
  • Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
  • Government liability
  • Government studies and investigations
  • Health care costs and insurance
  • Health care coverage and access
  • Health technology, devices, supplies
  • Human rights
  • Human trafficking
  • Immigration status and procedures
  • Infectious and parasitic diseases
  • Intergovernmental relations
  • Internet, web applications, social media
  • Law enforcement administration and funding
  • Legislative rules and procedure
  • Licensing and registrations
  • Manufacturing
  • Members of Congress
  • Metals
  • Military procurement, research, weapons development
  • Mining
  • Nuclear power
  • Oil and gas
  • Pipelines
  • Political parties and affiliation
  • Racial and ethnic relations
  • Religion
  • Research administration and funding
  • Research and development
  • Roads and highways
  • Rural conditions and development
  • Self-employed
  • Social security and elderly assistance
  • Spacecraft and satellites
  • State and local government operations
  • Taiwan
  • Tariffs
  • Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
  • Transportation programs funding
  • U.S. history
  • Urban and suburban affairs and development
  • Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
  • Veterans' medical care
  • War and emergency powers

Summary

By the Congressional Research Service (Introduced in House, Feb 22, 2022). Public domain.

This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that it is the duty of the federal government to carry out specified actions, including enacting a balanced budget amendment and abolishing the Department of Education.

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Madison CawthornR-NC-11Sponsor

No cosponsors.

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

Every action as published, oldest first. Roll calls link to how each member voted.

  1. Feb 22, 2022Introduced in House
  2. Feb 22, 2022Introduced in House
  3. Feb 22, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans' Affairs, Armed Services, Natural Resources, Rules, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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.
  4. Feb 22, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans' Affairs, Armed Services, Natural Resources, Rules, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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.
  5. Feb 22, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans' Affairs, Armed Services, Natural Resources, Rules, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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.
  6. Feb 22, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans' Affairs, Armed Services, Natural Resources, Rules, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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.
  7. Feb 22, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans' Affairs, Armed Services, Natural Resources, Rules, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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.
  8. Feb 22, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans' Affairs, Armed Services, Natural Resources, Rules, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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.
  9. Feb 22, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans' Affairs, Armed Services, Natural Resources, Rules, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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.
  10. Feb 22, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans' Affairs, Armed Services, Natural Resources, Rules, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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.
  11. Feb 22, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans' Affairs, Armed Services, Natural Resources, Rules, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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.
  12. Feb 22, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans' Affairs, Armed Services, Natural Resources, Rules, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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.
  13. Feb 22, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans' Affairs, Armed Services, Natural Resources, Rules, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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.
  14. Feb 22, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans' Affairs, Armed Services, Natural Resources, Rules, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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.
  15. Feb 22, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans' Affairs, Armed Services, Natural Resources, Rules, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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.
  16. Feb 22, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans' Affairs, Armed Services, Natural Resources, Rules, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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.
  17. Feb 23, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
  18. Feb 23, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
  19. Feb 23, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
  20. Feb 23, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
  21. Feb 23, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
  22. Feb 23, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
  23. Feb 23, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  24. Nov 1, 2022 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

Committees

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Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

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Sources and method

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  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.