To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to extend the emergency period during which the President may exercise control over the Metropolitan Police Department.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5015.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BIGGS of Arizona, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 140, August 22, 2025, Page H3707):
  Article I Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 22, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  19 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5015, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5015

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  12140ad4bb1cad45bc9451b3e833cdc640a026f0b8960a7706f2f7e085477094

  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 12, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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