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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 583.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. TONKO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 9, January 16, 2019, Page H676):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause I Provides Congress with the power to ``lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises'' in order to ``provide for the . . . general Welfare of the United States.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 16, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  197 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 583, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/583

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6e06d7feba70cfaa86f8f22bf4a5c7ff9f39cd7ec22bd89f87365e7df31833fe

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 583, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 20, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.