Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the seventeenth article of amendment.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 198.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SELF, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 107, June 25, 2026, Page H4264):
  Article 1 Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 25, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  19 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 198, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hjres/198

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 9, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  04aac554c21d033826a5065036d88976ee2cdf38ab6765dd2fc9b6a040806203

  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 9, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.J.Res. 198, last updated July 9, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.