Incentivizing Medicaid Expansion Act of 2017

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2688.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 91, May 25, 2017, Page H4608):
  Clause 3 of Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 25, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  55 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2688, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/2688

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9d3a9a616cc8d9d0e7853c175649633c2324a3b8bc7ba673104d50fdc96e65ea

  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 August 11, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2688, last updated August 11, 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.