.Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution requiring that each agency and department's funding is justified.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 11.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PERRY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 1, January 3, 2025, Page H43):
  Article V of the US Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: Proposes a balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  137 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 11, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hjres/11

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  642efc51072caf98ec4d28207057f8da19366d5de6731bb639cf8b410319ea45

  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 March 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.J.Res. 11, last updated March 27, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.