JUDGES Act of 2025

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1702.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1702, JUDGES Act” on March 25, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on March 5, 2025”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 25, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61263

  CBO publication date

  March 25, 2025

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1702, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1702

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 19, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ISSA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 39, February 27, 2025, Pages H919-H920):
  Article I, Section 8, clause 18 allows Congress to make all laws ``which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution'' any ``other'' powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States. *Note: According to the Supreme Court, the Necessary and Proper Clause gives Congress the ``power to make laws for carrying into execution all the Judgments which the judicial department has power to pronounce'' (Wayman v. Southard, 10 Wheat 1, 22 (1825)), and, thereby, Congress has ``undoubted power to regulate the practice and procedure of federal courts.'' See Sibbach v. Wilson & Co., 312 U.S. 1, 9 (1941).
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 27, 2025 ↗

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  Statement length

  633 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1702, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1702

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 19, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  16b70f6bb4e42bdc9ef2affbd0f192707e39ac232ffcf6ad960a24f1535d99c5

  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 committee report (as of September 19, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1702, last updated September 19, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 24, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.