Providing for the appointment of Barbara Barrett as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 27.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. MATSUI, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 36, February 25, 2021, Page H732):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 25, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  55 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 27, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hjres/27

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  aa35c08964b56bec5f8b4038155afa9004d459503343594daa59c6c895834395

  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 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.J.Res. 27, last updated December 6, 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.