English Language Unity Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 997.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GOOD of Virginia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 30, February 14, 2023, Page H840):
  Article 1 Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To establish English as the official language of the federal government.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 14, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  135 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 997, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/997

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  21db34bfa52e6307696fb36ffeb2f3550139c730a8331b04a5e81697dc56139a

  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 July 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 997, last updated July 21, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.