Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Congressional Gold Medal Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1817.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. VELAZQUEZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 40, March 3, 2025, Page H947):
  Article 1, Section 8, clause 6: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 3, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  133 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1817, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1817

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 19, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7912b2ce08758b9d41cd30696e3a82495416babb89906affedd129a6b14e6147

  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 19, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1817, last updated March 19, 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.