To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny any deduction for compensatory payments made to any person or governmental entity on account of the April 20, 2010, explosion on and sinking of the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6579.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BONNER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H6318):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated February 7, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  64 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6579, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/6579

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 7, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  961e2a3178ee03ac4657a79a84cae1a850c310cb6ac33706a18b65714569ed3f

  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 7, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 6579, last updated February 7, 2024. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 25, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.