Traditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 2017

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 564.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr.POSEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 9, January 13, 2017, Page H548):
  Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to thefollowing: Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 Article 1, Section 8, Clause18
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 13, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  167 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 564, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/564

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7570bb2c63ffe68c3d356602aa43a91c358f93cf2c539aac712f6f922ab017a6

  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. 564, 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.