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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 697.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 13, January 24, 2017, Page H689):
  The U.S. Constitution including Article 1, Section 8.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 24, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  53 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 697, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/697

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a5fad24a14c55cfd90ad19918c9f693abd756d9af8677b5c155791d8bc95ca9d

  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 April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 697, last updated April 7, 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.