Immediate Financial Relief for Federal Employees Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 657.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. COX of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 10, January 17, 2019, Page H720):
  Article 1 Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 17, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  45 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 657, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/657

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3254e03de6523b3f01f9630097de71e18c55a55c276e639d21629e972236db8e

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 657, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 20, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.