Financial Freedom Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1177.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DONALDS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 36, February 24, 2023, Page H876):
  Art 1, Sec 8 The single subject of this legislation is: The bill prohibits the Department of Labor from restricting the type of investments that self-directed 401(k) account investors can choose to invest in through a brokerage window.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 24, 2023 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

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  235 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1177, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1177

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3815161b973f95b8783e98a446bfddbd8ab8f7192e7c5be6e39bbf06a9bc672c

  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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