Citizenship Empowerment Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3113.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 112, June 29, 2017, Page H5377):
  The General Welfare Clause: Article I, section 8 of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to ``lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common defense and general Welfare of the United States.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 29, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  253 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3113, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3113

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d15f2b5925d5489f9534e21cf0f0dcf801643a912db0fd53792ee7f281314548

  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. 3113, 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.