Staff Salary Schedule Improvement Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5642.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KILMER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 153, September 21, 2023, Page H4458):
  Article 1, Section 8, U.S. Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: The single subject of this bill is Congressional modernization.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 21, 2023 ↗

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  147 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5642, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5642

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d404602fc310b883d49983c9671217b7838094e97568d414cc3271a0aa0d4335

  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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