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 Clarence Thomas to be obtained by the Joint Committee on the Library.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4216.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. STEIL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 114, June 30, 2021, Page H3580):
  Article I of the United States Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 30, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  43 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4216, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/4216

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3c30e0653062885b5d4b2ec08e8162e3fc97dd220d41eb44b9bb96d21c11ee54

  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.

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