To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to obtain a statue of Shirley Chisholm for placement in the United States Capitol.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4856.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. CLARKE of New York, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 164, No. 12, January 19, 2018, Page H583):
  the power granted to Congress under Article I of the United States Constitution and its subsequent amendments, and further clarified and interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 19, 2018 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  190 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4856, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/4856

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7f1b3a69b40604b972bd6ee75750465debf9da6f95c2b08ad5cf94578fbd80e1

  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. 4856, 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.