Cost of War Act of 2022
Latest action · Mar 17, 2022 Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 17, 2022
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Cost of War Act of 2022
This bill directs the Department of Defense (DOD) to post on its public website information relating to the cost to U.S. taxpayers of any overseas contingency operation conducted by the U.S. Armed Forces on or after September 18, 2001. DOD must update such information not later than 90 days after the end of each fiscal year.
Cosponsors 27
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 17, 2022 to Oct 25, 2022; 2 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-MI | Peter Meijer | Original | Mar 17, 2022 |
| D-CA | Sara Jacobs | Original | Mar 17, 2022 |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Apr 1, 2022 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Apr 1, 2022 | |
| D-WA | Marilyn Strickland | Apr 1, 2022 | |
| D-NY | Yvette D. Clarke | Apr 1, 2022 | |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Apr 4, 2022 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Apr 4, 2022 | |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Apr 6, 2022 | |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Apr 11, 2022 | |
| D-WA | Pramila Jayapal | May 10, 2022 | |
| D-IN | André Carson | May 18, 2022 | |
| D-VT | Peter Welch | Jun 3, 2022 | |
| D-GA | Carolyn Bourdeaux | Jun 22, 2022 | |
| D-NM | Melanie A. Stansbury | Jul 1, 2022 | |
| D-IL | Marie Newman | Jul 7, 2022 | |
| D-MI | Andy Levin | Jul 11, 2022 | |
| D-MI | Rashida Tlaib | Jul 11, 2022 | |
| D-CA | Ro Khanna | Jul 11, 2022 | |
| R-IN | Victoria Spartz | Jul 11, 2022 | |
| D-HI | Kaiali'i Kahele | Jul 14, 2022 | |
| D-IL | Jesús G. "Chuy" García | Jul 26, 2022 | |
| D-NY | Mondaire Jones | Aug 2, 2022 | |
| D-MS | Bennie G. Thompson | Sep 9, 2022 | |
| D-MN | Dean Phillips | Oct 18, 2022 | |
| D-MO | Cori Bush | Oct 21, 2022 | |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Oct 25, 2022 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Armed Services Committee | Referred Mar 17, 2022 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 17, 2022Introduced in House
- Mar 17, 2022Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 168, no. 48, March 17, 2022, page H3828.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To direct the Secretary of Defense to make publicly available on a website of the Department of Defense the cost to each United States taxpayer of certain contingency operations conducted by the United States Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Cost of War Act of 2022
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 17, 2022Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
