Postal Employee Appeal Rights Amendments Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1198.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CONNOLLY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 35, March 2, 2015, Pages H1525-H1526):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 and Clause 18 of the Constitution of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 2, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  86 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1198, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1198

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  76e92a31badf152fd1c0ffb9a6ff85372a6e23d1f290eb040c9cacac32205b5a

  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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1198, last updated December 5, 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.