Sensible Classification Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5977.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WENSTRUP, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 170, October 17, 2023, Pages H5021-H5022):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To improve the classification and declassification of national security information, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 17, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  206 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5977, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5977

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f303855d0023e5f93539b34a014b65174cee8482306dc69028e4a5df458c1b47

  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 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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