To provide a one-year extension of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, with certain modifications and exceptions, to make supplemental agricultural disaster assistance available for fiscal years 2012 and 2013, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6228.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LUCAS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H5331):
  The ability to regulate interstate commerce pursuant to Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated February 5, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  87 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6228, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/6228

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 5, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c0d83d4fec5565582f4b00c660228017db79958185d06b24ed3a2634c28c33a8

  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 February 5, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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