Shirley Chisholm Congressional Gold Medal Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1088.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. LEE of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 33, February 17, 2023, Page H856):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: Awarding a Congressional Gold Medal, postmordumly, to Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm who was the first woman to run for President and the first African American woman ever elected to Congress.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 17, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  287 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1088, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1088

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 2, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e800ca6a34b7720b4dd631e94775a205e7548916bec93a4843c927465104d31e

  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 February 2, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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