To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2017.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1436.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JORDAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 40, March 8, 2017, Page H1949):
  Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 and 3 of the Constitution of the United States; and Amendment X to the Constitution of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 8, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  137 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1436, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/1436

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2453b26116bc559beffcdf75608e804c6fa2d5d15e3513d03045b84756a7d516

  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 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1436, last updated December 6, 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.