To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require any cost estimate for a bill or joint resolution prepared by the Congressional Budget Office to include the cost to each United States citizen for carrying out such measure, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9777.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BRECHEEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 149, September 24, 2024, Page H5748):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: Congressional Budget Office Reform
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 24, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

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  98 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9777, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9777

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e5a96a312efd8479d21dbcce7724180a4df8e209705b20b7c7aec00024d57846

  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. 9777, 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.