119 HR 250

To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to procure a statue of Benjamin Franklin for placement in the Capitol.

Congress119
ChamberHouse
TypeHR
Number250
Introduced2025-01-09
Cosponsors34

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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.

2025-02-27

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Elena Marsh (Intel Desk)

Markets have priced the pause as resolution; the $18.1B equity outflow and $7.86B money market inflow suggest retail investors are less convinced.

The market is pricing a de-escalation scenario. The data says the conflict's underlying triggers remain unresolved. The gap is the trade. Oil dropped more than 2% on the pause announcement per CNBC reporting, and WTI had already pulled back sharply in the prior session with Brent down 8.7% to $88.36/barrel as of Monday's close — that is a significant demand-shock pricing reversal that assumes the pause becomes a deal. But ICI fund flow data this week shows $18.1 billion net outflow from equity funds against a $7.86 billion inflow to money market funds — retail is not rotating back into risk. Real GDP for 2026Q1 came in at +2.1% SAAR after 2025Q4's near-stall at +0.5%, which means the economy has some buffer, but a resumed conflict that spikes energy prices would eat directly into that recovery. The ammunition-reserves question Trump deflected is also a fiscal signal — procurement surge spending would hit the deficit at exactly the moment S 5019, the Disclosure of Tax Havens and Offshoring Act, is the most-viewed legislation in Congress, not defense appropriations.

2026-07-28

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H.J. Res. 1, a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that the Supreme Court of the United States be composed of nine justices

As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on June 3, 2026

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@misc{apprised_119_hr_250_to_direct_the_joint_committee,
  title = {119 HR 250: To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to procure a statue of Benjamin Franklin for placement in the Capitol.},
  publisher = {Apprised.news},
  url = {https://apprised.news/bill/119hr250},
  note = {Accessed 2026-07-28}
}