Guam Supplemental Security Income Equality Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 157.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SAN NICOLAS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 2, January 4, 2021, Page H55):
  The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is the power of the Congress: to provide for the general welfare of the United States, as enumerated in Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution; to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution such power, as enumerated in Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution; and to make rules and regulations respecting the U.S. territories, as enumerated in Article IV; Section 3, Clause 2 of the Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 4, 2021 ↗

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  523 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 157, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/157

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b234f50f919093e922432923179cbe0b2569996e07cc0ee2aedb030f013f7c1f

  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 January 3, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 157, last updated January 3, 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.