John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. SEWELL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 147, August 17, 2021, Page H4338):
  1) Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting Congress the authority to enact appropriate laws to protect the civil rights of all Americans; 2) Section 2 of the Fifteenth Amendment, granting Congress the authority to protect against racial discrimination in voting; and 3) Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, granting Congress the authority to make or alter the regulations pertaining to Federal elections.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 17, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  475 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/4

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  075003d55bcb6434e961a99dc49d767f55f9fa0d429cac8e2058585824abe368

  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. 4, 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.