To amend title 23, United States Code, to withhold certain apportionment funds from the District of Columbia unless the Mayor of the District of Columbia removes the phrase Black Lives Matter from the street symbolically designated as Black Lives Matter Plaza, redesignates such street as Liberty Plaza, and removes such phrase from each website, document, and other material under the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1774.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CLYDE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 40, March 3, 2025, Page H945):
  Under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the U.S. Constitution Congress has the exclusive power to address legislation governing the affairs of the District of Columbia, to which Congress has the exclsuive power ``to excercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsover, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may . . .''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 3, 2025 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1774, 119th Congress

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  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1774

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 18, 2025

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  September 13, 2026

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  f35a1658c00e004006edbf5ba681867149f4abb34ea6be13ad549f281467aa64

  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 June 18, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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