Inaction Has Consequences Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 209.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WITTMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 1, January 3, 2025, Page H43):
  Article 1, Section 6 of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: failure to pass congressional appropriaitons
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  128 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 209, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/209

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  November 20, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  563cb3811560fe953045ba494867c4af977b541c21a89c075a346ea41a1ef40b

  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 November 20, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 209, last updated November 20, 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.