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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6161.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 195, November 19, 2025, Page H4818):
  to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts, and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 19, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  233 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6161, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6161

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  669fa75b3e33e634e05bd737a8b4923289263c0b436da0796b574990f2f65e0f

  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 January 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 6161, last updated January 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.