COINTELPRO Full Disclosure Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9973.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 155, October 11, 2024, Page H5868):
  In compliacne with Art 1 of the Consitution The single subject of this legislation is: This legislation would compel government agencies to release and require public disclosure of all records related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)'s nefarious COINTELPRO operation, a series of covert and illegal projects aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting and disrupting domestic political organizations.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 11, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

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  417 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9973, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9973

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 18, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f74ba48faf413f97c63e95c85ed9c0ef3ec6c1775f1b2cd25e6a3011938996ea

  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 August 18, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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