Safeguarding American Workers’ Benefits Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7991.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 64, April 15, 2024, Page H2398):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States. The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the social security number requirements for claiming the child tax credit and earned income tax credit.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 15, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  410 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7991, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7991

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 19, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  bbe77b68f69094c19cdbef4fd4914f4fa4754baf9b256bbb9f5133e1b18595b4

  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 19, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7991, last updated December 19, 2024. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.