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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1700.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FULCHER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 52, March 22, 2023, Page H1328):
  Article 1, Section 8, providing Congress to ``make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution'' the power eneumerated in Article 1 and ``all other Powers vested by [the] Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Office thereof.'' The single subject of this legislation is: Provides for relief process of denied applications for transfer or registration of a firearm that are denied or delayed.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 22, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  458 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1700, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1700

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f70cae603d886c23cd1e24235200d59b17b8581e2ce64a4b37dfafa04320e9e2

  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. 1700, 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.