PTC Elimination Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8359.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MARCHANT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 166, No. 165, September 23, 2020, Pages H4884-H4885):
  U.S. Constitution Art I Sec. 8 cl. 1, under the ``Power To lay and collect Taxes''; Amd. 16, under the ``power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration''; and Art. I Sec. 8 cl. 18, under the power to ``To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.'
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 23, 2020 ↗

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  557 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8359, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/8359

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7b37ca65064fb3c98c61e3766f7ade0d783ee8ed610d8961b3ec9ea7da339e53

  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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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