Stop Bankrupting Our Country Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9519.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. EDWARDS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 140, September 10, 2024, Page H5157):
  Article 1, Section 8, clause 1 provides Congress with the power to ``lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises'' in order to ``provide for the . . . general welfare of the United States The single subject of this legislation is: Establishes a limit on annual increases in total discretionary and mandatory Federal spending.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 10, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  332 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9519, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9519

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  fe1f63c2045085bc9961df642320372d3619f32ce0bc9e4a562d18b3fc9926e5

  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. 9519, 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.