To replace the current Forest Service administrative appeals process with a pre-decisional administrative review process modeled after the successful approach used in the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2209.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BENISHEK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H4328):
  clause 3 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated January 24, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  54 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2209, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/2209

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 24, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7c41cc66d3709b35a07b15fe9d4cef9f0538666d69c25118407fa454e2dd8b34

  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 24, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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