Cabinet Accountability and Transparency Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6958.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BEAN of Florida, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 6, January 11, 2024, Page H107):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18: The Congress shall have Power . . . To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. The single subject of this legislation is: To require cabinet officials to notify Congress in the event such an official is temporarily unable to perform the functions and duties of their position.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 11, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  499 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6958, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6958

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 4, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  eb1fdf4b3daf752309855035209d727de725a018c4af6154b48dc27af71c4d39

  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 February 4, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 6958, last updated February 4, 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.