Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Social Security Administration relating to Implementation of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 40.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 15, January 30, 2017, Page H746):
  Clause 1 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution to ``provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 30, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  134 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 40, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hjres/40

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  82b2bc04a86adb223c5f5dc3bf4bbc94cd8b661a6cd0e8ce7f5b4016e39ed578

  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.J.Res. 40, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 21, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.