To authorize an additional district judgeship for the district of Idaho.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 269.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SIMPSON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 8, January 10, 2023, Page H152):
  Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 10, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  42 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 269, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/269

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  39b57a58931361168534059b9cb2d2e781dfead8d36d5607a178ca283229a2cb

  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 May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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