No Bias in the Baseline Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8979.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CLINE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 114, July 10, 2024, Page H4588):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: This bill clarifies that the baseline is based on current laws and assumption of continuation of current levels of discretionary appropriations.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 10, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  234 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8979, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8979

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d154cbcad8aa9b43dc8063a96d2384eb5b4da362d8042073df92d003b5c49e03

  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. 8979, 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.