Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that new States may be admitted to the United States upon a concurrence of two thirds of each house of Congress.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 99.

• 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. 97, June 6, 2025, Page H2535):
  Article V
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 6, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  9 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 99, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hjres/99

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 18, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  625fea9cd34f6ea10840cf05c3603e298badd77f0d8c7682ecc255719bc66dfe

  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 18, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.J.Res. 99, last updated July 18, 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.