Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act of 2011

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1581.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. McCARTHY of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H2914):
  Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 relating to the power of Congress to ``dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States.''
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated December 5, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  201 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1581, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/1581

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2daee10568963557c8c177c9b32c213ce7e958cd50245f9d84372e1ab7765f32

  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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1581, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 25, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.