Continued State Flexibility To Assist Older Foster Youth Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5661.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 185, October 21, 2021, Page H5792):
  Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes. Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 21, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  223 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5661, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/5661

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  1d337ed4bff6810e88ce7786c9228af8416b98d5f46f96a7bf73d7d9b1c7c633

  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.

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