Voter Empowerment Act of 2017

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 12.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 108, June 23, 2017, Page H5139):
  This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article I of the United States Constitution and its subsequent amendments, and further clarified and interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 23, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  224 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 12, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/12

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 4, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  257753f8171a467b72b14f18f227a32611c414a1687b35b44ea47d881d370cf8

  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. 12, 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.