Balanced Budget and Accounting Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7656.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FEENSTRA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 45, March 13, 2024, Page H1181):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To require the President to submit a balanced budget to Congress.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 13, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  129 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7656, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7656

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  71be8f13ae2233acf0596993e7c11f4e3e98954d8106b9ea1ad579d63a943cf8

  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 September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7656, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.