CUTS Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1654.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BEAN of Florida, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 39, February 27, 2025, Page H918):
  The Necessary and Proper Clause of Article 1 Section 8 The Congress shall have the power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution . . .
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 27, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  175 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1654, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1654

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 2, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0eeb06cf797150767e3dc1b0f8e0e0fb750dec928b316a1152b5138de153b8a9

  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 September 2, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1654, last updated September 2, 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.