DRAIN THE SWAMP Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 10517.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BEAN of Florida, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 189, December 19, 2024, Page H7390):
  Article 1 Section 8 Clause 18, the Necessary and Proper Clause [The Congress shall have Power . . .] To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for parrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all Other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. The single subject of this legislation is: To require the head of each Executive-agency to relocate 30 percent of the employees assigned to the headquarters of the Executive agency to duty stations outside the Washington metropolitan area, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 19, 2024 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 10517, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/10517

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  feecc38608ef5b8d847b57d6860ea5e52a76907fb94e128c8077b3332e0950aa

  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.R. 10517, 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.