Financial CHOICE Act of 2016

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5983.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 114-883 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Financial Services Committee on December 20, 2016.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported December 20, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/883

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5983, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5983

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f9d2055670acea31893fdcd67e800b07c122642868f6ff976b47db5ab4cf4dfa

  A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HENSARLING, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 136, September 9, 2016, Page H5255):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 (``To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes''); Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 (``To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures''); Article I, Section 8, Clause 6 (``To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States''); and Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 (``To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States or in any Department or Officer thereof.'').
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 9, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  698 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5983, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5983

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f9d2055670acea31893fdcd67e800b07c122642868f6ff976b47db5ab4cf4dfa

  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 (as of September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5983, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.