MAKERS Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 812.

• 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. 18, January 28, 2025, Page H407):
  to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts, and provide for the common Defense 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 January 28, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  233 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 812, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/812

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 20, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  52eb85f90663b90e9ba37d216b448734a3de068ed0cd89067624f53d7f47953e

  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 20, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 812, last updated March 20, 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.