To amend section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, to require that annual budget submissions of the President to Congress provide an estimate of the cost per taxpayer of the deficit and of the public debt.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5490.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. STEWART, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 206, December 19, 2019, Page H12290):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Consitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 19, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

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  64 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5490, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/5490

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4b4e3b664b3e80ac588b06f484496108a12aaacee482a9b7484950039a101cfb

  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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