H.R.2372: To simplify and expedite access to the Federal courts for injured parties whose rights and privileges, secured by the United States Constitution, have been deprived by final actions of Federal agencies, or other government officials or entities acting under color of State law; to prevent Federal courts from abstaining from exercising Federal jurisdiction in actions where no State law claim is alleged; to permit certification of unsettled State law questions that are essential to resolving Federal claims arising under the Constitution; and to clarify when government action is sufficiently final to ripen certain Federal claims arising under the Constitution.

Bill Cosponsors

112 (21 Democrats, 1 Independent, 91 Republicans)

• Martin Frost (D-Texas)
• Calvin M. Dooley (D-Calif.)
• Virgil H. Goode (R-Va.)
• Sanford D. Bishop Jr. (D-Ga.)
• Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.)
• James T. Walsh (R-N.Y.)
• James A. Barcia (D-Mich.)
• Dan Burton (R-Ind.)
• Joe Scarborough (R-Fla.)
• Tom Petri (R-Wis.)
• Roscoe G. Bartlett (R-Md.)
• Joe L. Barton (R-Texas)
• John M. McHugh (R-N.Y.)
• Deborah D. Pryce (R-Ohio)
• Wes Watkins (R-Okla.)
• John Shimkus (R-Ill.)
• Allen Boyd (D-Fla.)
• Nathan Deal (R-Ga.)
• William M. Thornberry (R-Texas)
• James Turner (D-Texas)
• Mark Adam Foley (R-Fla.)
• Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.)
• Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.)
• Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.)
• Van Hilleary (R-Tenn.)
• Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.)
• Tim Holden (D-Pa.)
• David Lee Hobson (R-Ohio)
• Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.)
• Richard W. Pombo (R-Calif.)
• Phil English (R-Pa.)
• F. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.)
• Sonny Callahan (R-Ala.)
• John R. Kasich (R-Ohio)
• Owen B. Pickett (D-Va.)
• David J. Weldon (R-Fla.)
• Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.)
• Rick Hill (R-Mont.)
• Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
• Dave Camp (R-Mich.)
• David M. McIntosh (R-Ind.)
• Floyd Spence (R-S.C.)
• John T. Doolittle (R-Calif.)
• Mike Simpson (R-Idaho)
• Ron Packard (R-Calif.)
• Charles W. Norwood (R-Ga.)
• Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.)
• Bob Schaffer (R-Colo.)
• Christopher B. Cannon (R-Utah)
• Earl F. Hilliard (D-Ala.)
• Max A. Sandlin (D-Texas)
• Frank Mascara (D-Pa.)
• Joseph K. Knollenberg (R-Mich.)
• Donald Manzullo (R-Ill.)
• Steven J. Chabot (R-Ohio)
• Richard K. Armey (R-Texas)
• Wally Herger (R-Calif.)
• Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.)
• Bob Stump (R-Ariz.)
• Gary G. Miller (R-Calif.)
• Harold Rogers (R-Ky.)
• Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.)
• Gerald C. Weller (R-Ill.)
• Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.)
• James Allen Nussle (R-Iowa)
• Mike Doyle (D-Pa.)
• Robert B. Aderholt (R-Ala.)
• Robert L. Ehrlich (R-Md.)
• Tom Latham (R-Iowa)
• Michael Bilirakis (R-Fla.)
• John Linder (R-Ga.)
• Jack Kingston (R-Ga.)
• Anne Meagher Northup (R-Ky.)
• Kevin Brady (R-Texas)
• John E. Peterson (R-Pa.)
• Ken Calvert (R-Calif.)
• Bob Franks (R-N.J.)
• Frank A. LoBiondo (R-N.J.)
• John A. Boehner (R-Ohio)
• Robin C. Hayes (R-N.C.)
• Henry Bonilla (R-Texas)
• Solomon P. Ortiz (D-Texas)
• Scott McInnis (R-Colo.)
• Steven R. Rothman (D-N.J.)
• Tillie K. Fowler (R-Fla.)
• Greg Walden (R-Ore.)
• Thomas M. Reynolds (R-N.Y.)
• Don Young (R-Alaska)
• Richard M. Burr (R-N.C.)
• Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)
• Bob Barr (R-Ga.)
• Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.)
• Larry Combest (R-Texas)
• Jennifer B. Dunn (R-Wash.)
• Robert W. Goodlatte (R-Va.)
• Michael Allen Collins (R-Ga.)
• Jim R. Ryun (R-Kan.)
• Robert E. Cramer (D-Ala.)
• Christopher John (D-La.)
• Charles H. Taylor (R-N.C.)
• John E. Sweeney (R-N.Y.)
• Sue Myrick (R-N.C.)
• Harold E. Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.)
• John J. Duncan Jr. (R-Tenn.)
• William Lewis Jenkins (R-Tenn.)
• Barbara L. Cubin (R-Wyo.)
• Howard Coble (R-N.C.)
• Robert William Ney (R-Ohio)
• Steve Buyer (R-Ind.)
• John Tanner (D-Tenn.)
• Ronnie Shows (D-Miss.)
• George P. Radanovich (R-Calif.)

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