End Taxpayer Funded Cell Phones Act of 2017

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3546.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 128, July 28, 2017, Page H6577):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 28, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  65 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3546, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3546

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2e0f02732602c653085583e5143525195dd2706741a4e7151223e99113b680c4

  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. 3546, 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.