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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5933.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FLEISCHMANN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 133, September 6, 2016, Page H5096):
  The principal constitutional authority for this legislation is clause 7 of section 9 of article I of the Constitution of the United States (the appropriation power), which states: ``No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 6, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  403 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5933, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5933

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  cb62caadb59241cf59f717d0c39d8d1edd0a79c31c9f51e33506b40e7c70d350

  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. 5933, 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.