To prohibit the use of funds by the Internal Revenue Service to target citizens of the United States for exercising any right guaranteed under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4903.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ALLEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 55, April 12, 2016, Page H1635):
  This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article I, Section 8, clauses 1 and 18 of the Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 12, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  127 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4903, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4903

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  994c2e2475f31e5be53d125952c2204759fdc371e309c478819e1e5b3b688589

  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.

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