Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide certain line item veto authority to the President.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 8.

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

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  59 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 8, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hjres/8

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 14, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f714a42a7dbb9e61d4d0b1739123e15ccad4a28aab0eeef5931da322ab386071

  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 January 14, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.J.Res. 8, last updated January 14, 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.