Distillery Excise Tax Reform Act of 2015

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1172.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LARSEN of Washington, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 34, February 27, 2015, Page H1501):
  As described in Article 1, Section 1 ``all legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 27, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  192 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1172, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1172

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c58f731ef169da27c15f2c3bc23d9b8ed5653bdae8e7afd3833f694718f9a5b8

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of August 12, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1172, last updated August 12, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.