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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3428.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WITTMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 121, July 29, 2015, Page H5775):
  Article I, section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution of the United States grants Congress the authority to enact this bill.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 29, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  122 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3428, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3428

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0b432d87d8073bd02d434e58f4e0e84fe87b96d5c5cbcf239152261863653a6b

  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. 3428, 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.