To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to provide that concurrent resolutions on the budget include the recommended ratio of the public debt to the estimated gross domestic product for each fiscal year covered by the resolution.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4071.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. TIMMONS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 126, July 25, 2019, Page H7471):
  Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7, which provides that, ``No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 25, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

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  276 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4071, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4071

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3a4690718db48f0363d36e5d9fdd97a6d79de49268d96d9eb18e7f317fa8f61f

  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 September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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