Ensuring VA Employee Accountability Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 27.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. COSTELLO of Pennsylvania, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 1, January 3, 2017, Page H46):
  Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  54 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 27, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/27

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 14, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  beba5cb95adcc4c95d4c6cb5bb7b06586afd2b1c81e2843b14caf645fcffa5ab

  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 January 14, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 27, last updated January 14, 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.