CREATE Act of 2017

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1649.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. DINGELL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 49, March 21, 2017, Page H2288):
  The constitutional authority of Congress to enact this legislation is provided by Article I, section 8 of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 21, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  137 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1649, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/1649

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3f5b1daa35c6fe5743cf96902b37fcbe5fe1bce25e782636ce09cda18dd262b0

  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. 1649, 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.