What does Congress.gov record show about the status and text of S.646 and H.R.3368 in 2025–2026?

1. What Congress.gov records about S.646 actually show

Congress.gov’s “All Info” entry for S.646 in the 119th Congress lists the bill title “Born in the USA Act,” states its purpose—to prohibit funds for implementation of Executive Order 14160—and indicates there is one version of the bill with committee referral details and typical legislative metadata available on the page ^[1]. The record confirms S.646 was introduced in the Senate, includes committee assignment information and links to any reported actions or documents, and the introduced text is recorded on mirror sites such as LegiScan and GovTrack showing the bill’s text as introduced on February 20, 2025 ^{[4] [3]}.

2. What Congress.gov records about H.R.3368 actually show

Congress.gov hosts the text for H.R.3368, the House companion titled the “Born in the USA Act of 2025,” and directly describes the bill’s purpose as prohibiting federal funds to carry out Executive Order 14160; the entry shows the bill’s text in the introduced version and notes that it was referred to the Judiciary Committee ^[2]. Complementary trackers record H.R.3368’s introduction date as May 13, 2025 and reiterate that, following introduction, normal next steps would be committee consideration before any floor action—Congress.gov’s record reflects that early-stage posture rather than enactment or committee reporting ^{[5] [2]}.

3. What the texts say and legal framing visible in the records

The publicly posted introduced texts available on Congress.gov and mirrored by GovTrack/LegiScan make the operative aim plain: bar federal funding to implement or enforce Executive Order 14160 ^{[2] [3] [4]}. GovTrack’s hosted text and annotations additionally include framing language arguing that birthright citizenship is constitutionally protected and cannot be rescinded by executive order or statute—an assertion included in the bill’s explanatory material in the House text and in GovTrack commentary ^[6]. Congress.gov reproduces the legislative language and provides links to summaries and CRS-authored material where applicable, but it does not adjudicate constitutional claims; the record shows text and sponsor/co-sponsor information rather than judicial or executive determinations ^{[2] [1]}.

4. Procedural status, limits of the record, and what is not shown

Congress.gov’s pages for both measures primarily document introduction, text, committee referral, and related metadata; they do not, in the snapshots cited here, show further committee action, reported committee bills, passage in either chamber, or enactment—indicating both were at early procedural stages in 2025–2026 as presented in these sources ^{[1] [2] [5]}. Third‑party trackers corroborate introduction dates and mirror the introduced texts but do not substitute for final legislative history; where Congress.gov lists “Committees” and “Actions,” those headings are available for future updates, and absence of recorded passage in these sources means the record as cited stops at referral and posted text ^{[1] [5]}.

5. Bottom line and competing views recorded in the sources

The authoritative Congressional record on Congress.gov shows S.646 and H.R.3368 as introduced bills with identical stated purposes—to block federal funding for Executive Order 14160—and makes their texts and procedural referrals publicly available ^{[1] [2]}. The sources also capture competing legal framing: the bills assert a policy stance while accompanying material and trackers emphasize constitutional constraints on altering birthright citizenship—an explicit limitation on what an appropriations prohibition can accomplish and a signal that legal challenge and interpretation would follow any attempt to implement such measures ^[6]. Where Congress.gov is silent—on later committee votes, floor action, or enactment—this reporting cannot speculate and instead documents only the published status and text entries cited above ^{[1] [2]}.