To require the President to designate a legal public holiday to be known as National First Responders Day.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5425.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CAPUANO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 91, June 9, 2016, Page H3664):
  The Congress enacts this bill pursuant to Article I, Section 8, Clause 1; and Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 9, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  143 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5425, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5425

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 4, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e6cb376a3a35555fcba594ba5a12f5c49a7115a4c04da0155a9cace6ce2d39b7

  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 February 4, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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