Firefighter Equipment Protection Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 177.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WOMACK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 1, January 6, 2015, Page H49):
  Article 1, Clause 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution which reads: ``The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts, and provide for the common Defense and General Welfare of the United States; but all Duties and Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 6, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  348 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 177, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/177

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  5f3e1eb715141e74850c09dca2880cdba5267b3e8f590019025e4d9882ed06a2

  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. 177, 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.