Agency Accountability Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 850.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PALMER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 18, January 29, 2019, Page H1284):
  Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 provides, ``No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 29, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  260 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 850, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/850

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e622735acfbac90220932c8636803f2db7b39e131b41aae25f3d03f0bce17217

  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. 850, 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.