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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3044.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. CLARKE of New York, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 74, May 2, 2023, Page H2127):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: Elections
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 2, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  73 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3044, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/3044

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f8ba0d90f89d3e9e7db7b1810e1ba30948fedfe9ac2b28b3f88e345529ed27a9

  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. 3044, 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.