Bill stops U.S. money to the International Criminal Court.
H.R. 23 — Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act · Filed by Chip Roy (R-TX) · 38 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill cuts all U.S. money to the International Criminal Court (ICC). It punishes foreign countries and companies that help the ICC. The ICC would lose funding for investigating or arresting U.S. citizens and officials. It also protects officials from U.S. allies. The bill takes back any U.S. money already given to the ICC.
Who it affects
U.S. citizens and military workers are protected from ICC prosecution. Officials from U.S. allies also get protection. The ICC loses all U.S. funding.
One thing to notice
The bill protects not only U.S. officials but also officials from allied countries. The definition of who gets protected is very broad and could include many government workers and contractors.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
38 cosponsors: 38 Republicans.
- Jan 3, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 3, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Appropriations and House Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and…”
- Jan 9, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 243 - 140, 1 Present (Roll no. 7). (text: CR H67-69)”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
6 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 10 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $2,964,605 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 24 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 82% of bills with any report.
Chip Roy, who sponsored the bill, received $68,100 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Israel Public Affairs Committee — $1,784,900 in 2 reports
- J Street — $340,000 in 2 reports
- Fdd Action — $290,000 in 1 report
- Christians United for Israel Action Fund — $269,705 in 2 reports
- The Munger Companies — $180,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- International Criminal Court — A court that investigates and prosecutes people for serious crimes like war crimes.
- punishes — Applies penalties or consequences to someone for breaking a rule.
- prosecution — The act of charging someone with a crime in court.
- allies — Countries or groups that work together and support each other.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (10,935 characters) on Jul 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,358 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-19.
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