Presidential Pardon Transparency Act of 2017

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3489.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 127, July 27, 2017, Page H6519):
  The authority to offer this bill derives from Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the US Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 27, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  100 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3489, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3489

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  41b52b89de827d0b29f6de5cd8131907d82e6350455bfb6cbed72ed5c52c6306

  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. 3489, 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.