National Right-to-Work Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 785.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KING of Iowa, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 17, February 1, 2017, Page H878):
  This act erases the forced-dues clauses in the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and Railway Labor Act (RLA). As such, this bill makes specific changes to existing law in a manner that returns power to the States and to the People, in accordance with Amendment X of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 1, 2017 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 785, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/785

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3b0eea69141b84765d05558d2b107593cd3d51a972fdc002a9a86ab5496ede90

  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 August 11, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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