For the People Act of 2021

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1, For the People Act of 2021” on March 1, 2021. CBO’s description reads “As Posted on the House Committee on Rules Website on February 25, 2021”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 1, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57035

  CBO publication date

  March 1, 2021

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/1

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 17, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7ad5dfed52454266873113405031bbf53f15d21cfe5823ed17f29e66c9ad386e

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SARBANES, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 2, January 4, 2021, Page H51):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 4, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  30 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/1

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 17, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7ad5dfed52454266873113405031bbf53f15d21cfe5823ed17f29e66c9ad386e

  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 committee report (as of December 17, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1, last updated December 17, 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.