Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that the Supreme Court of the United States be composed of nine justices.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 8.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 7, January 9, 2023, Page H114):
  Article V of the Constitution of the United States
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 9, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  50 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 8, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hjres/8

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  1c58a786ab0d3cbc19d9e91fd831f8974bd0ad72f6776065bd9d351d601ed2c1

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.J.Res. 8, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.