TRUTH in Government Act of 2016

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6098.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SANFORD, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 143, September 21, 2016, Page H5800):
  the Sixteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 21, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  48 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6098, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/6098

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  59a9fa541d1fc18263e4ae404e076abbddec4a621c3dd1729fbfe5ab6fcdbc1e

  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. 6098, 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.