To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to extend through 2023 the authority of the Federal Election Commission to impose civil money penalties on the basis of a schedule of penalties established and published by the Commission.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7120.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HARPER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 164, No. 179, November 13, 2018, Page H9510):
  Article I, Section 4 and Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 13, 2018 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  69 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7120, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/7120

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  debb4912b9f34c89f770ca936b24b8d53e1215b746c6fc146abe114e77badf8b

  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.

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