H.R. 23 · 119th Congress · International affairs
Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Jan 9, 2025
Roll call ↗243
140
Passed the House.
Passed the House on January 9, 2025.
Latest action: Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 54 - 45. Record Vote Number: 22. (CR S410)
- IntroducedJan 3, 2025
- CommitteeJan 3, 2025
- Passed HouseJan 9, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 38
- all Republicans
- House committees
- AppropriationsJudiciaryForeign Affairs
- Lobbying
- At least 13
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
Requires the President to impose sanctions on any foreign person who engages in, aids, or materially supports an International Criminal Court effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute a protected person, beginning within 60 days of enactment and continuing on an ongoing basis.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, January 9, 2025
Yea unless marked
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
Requires the President to impose sanctions on any foreign person who engages in, aids, or materially supports an International Criminal Court effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute a protected person, beginning within 60 days of enactment and continuing on an ongoing basis. The sanctions are the blocking of all property and property interests in the United States under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, plus visa ineligibility, inadmissibility, and immediate revocation of any current visa. The visa and entry sanctions also reach the immediate family members, defined as spouse, parent, sibling, or adult child, of a sanctioned person. The bill defines protected person to cover United States persons and the citizens and officials of United States allies that have not consented to ICC jurisdiction, unless the United States formally consents to that jurisdiction and joins the Rome Statute. Separately, it rescinds any funds already appropriated for the ICC and bars any future appropriated funds from being used for the ICC. The President may waive sanctions case-by-case for periods up to 90 days on a written national-security determination reported to Congress, and may terminate sanctions if the ICC ceases and permanently ends its efforts against protected persons. The findings section states that the ICC's Pre-Trial Chamber issued arrest warrants for Israeli officials Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant on November 21, 2024.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 13 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 46 quarterly reports filed by 1 lobbying firm and by 12 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: Christians United for Israel Action Fund; Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, Inc.; The Munger Companies; American Israel Public Affairs Committee; A New Policy Inc. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 8 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.