Social Security Fairness Act of 2015

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 973.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 25, February 13, 2015, Page H1070):
  Article I, Section 9, Clause 7, giving Congress the authority to control the expenditures of the federal government.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 13, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  116 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 973, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/973

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6b0ba0dc71d3661181140a28f485d2b9b9110f408eb565b2c96c6b58e9d5b527

  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. 973, 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.