Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that the Supreme Court of the United States be composed of nine justices.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 11.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 2, January 4, 2021, Page H56):
  Article V of the Constitution of the United States
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 4, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  50 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 11, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hjres/11

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  November 26, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  02ec0294749c5e778b2b00953e7a345263cb0cb00adda0ce84b44b852e74d0b7

  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 November 26, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.J.Res. 11, last updated November 26, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 16, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.