END Child Exploitation Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1198.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GONZALEZ of Ohio, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 33, February 22, 2021, Page H549):
  Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution 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.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 22, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  202 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1198, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/1198

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9ef60e2bb690e2a41019c22c92c16b7fe2cbd38ecae10cc04290cf8a0120637f

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1198, last updated December 5, 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.