To suspend the production of the penny and nickel, to require the Comptroller General of the United States to carry out a study on pennies and nickels, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1270.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SCHWEIKERT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 29, February 12, 2025, Page H678):
  Article 1 Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 12, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  19 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1270, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1270

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 17, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  491f5a9605a1782bf0be020b90af73f506a549cab903c011d01a1a099cc72911

  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 17, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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