Drain the Intelligence Community Swamp Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4205.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SANTOS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 107, June 20, 2023, Page H2991):
  US Constitution, Article 1 Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To revoke the security clearances of certain former members of the intelligence community, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 20, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  194 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4205, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4205

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  be3c961aaccea5fd364fce08140bdadb58fa6837aae5c5f6eaa077b94a82456b

  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 June 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4205, last updated June 6, 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.