Presidential Trade Transparency Act of 2017

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1172.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. NEAL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 28, February 16, 2017, Page H1305):
  The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is the power of Congress to lay and collect duties and to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, as enumerated in Article I, Section 8.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 16, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  190 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1172, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/1172

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 4, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8279a8ae02df100fbbf58c448cf9c23eb02d81b49a5687e9df1c0184a9451f76

  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 4, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1172, last updated December 4, 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.