No Budget, No Pay Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 429.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WITTMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 6, January 10, 2017, Page H300):
  Article I, Section 6 of the United States Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 10, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  54 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 429, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/429

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f1644212b265d9267159b5f45cb287789b75a405e17279a5db8a3c6691c064fd

  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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 429, last updated December 5, 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.