Emancipation Statue Removal Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 729.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. NORTON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 21, February 1, 2023, Page H630):
  clause 18 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: to require the Secretary of the Interior to remove the Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park in the District of Columbia.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 1, 2023 ↗

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  221 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 729, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/729

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 11, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  70c7adbc14d203c9aaf12c159c265cc32aa4e4e2ed2da75d86353030334ce5e6

  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 11, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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