To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to replace the bust of Roger Brooke Taney in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the United States Capitol with a bust of Thurgood Marshall to be obtained by the Joint Committee on the Library and to remove certain statues from areas of the United States Capitol which are accessible to the public, to remove all statues of individuals who voluntarily served the Confederate States of America from display in the United States Capitol, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3005.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HOYER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 79, May 7, 2021, Page H2152):
  US Constitution, Article I
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 7, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  26 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3005, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/3005

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4673544af38551841a0c40e26a47f029cfb31d03984ccd9c8cdf77a19e8693cc

  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 April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3005, last updated April 7, 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.