PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2016

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6251.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GARRETT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 147, September 28, 2016, Page H6106):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 (The Congress shall have Power ``To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States and within the Indian Tribes'') and Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 (The Congress shall have Power ``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''). Additional authority derives from Article III, Section 1 (``The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.…
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 28, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  1,031 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6251, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/6251

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3d0152eeeb29a68a8aa348d9796c02fdfe1ed63fa1af192e3a03c99ac50f3c94

  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. 6251, 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.