Foreign Remittance Accountability and Transparency Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5978.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SELF, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 187, November 7, 2025, Page H4586):
  Congress has the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, and to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution this power, pursuant to Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 and 18 of the Constitution of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 7, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  253 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5978, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5978

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  November 20, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4b2aae4164a569e66a33f7dab091df1cbe436416111d6fc0673947d0b66ac071

  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. 5978, 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.