To award the Congressional Gold Medal to Shimon Peres.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2939.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KENNEDY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H5346):
  This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article I, Section 8.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated December 5, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  90 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2939, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/2939

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3c284963cca17a5ec4facc6df922e3948ccd3361968fceebf1ab2dbc573899e1

  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. 2939, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 23, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.