To prohibit the Department of Defense from retaining any interest in real property disposed of pursuant to a base closure law when that property was originally acquired by the United States by donation for the purpose of establishing or expanding a military installation.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5355.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. McALLISTER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H7187):
  clause 3 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated June 6, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  54 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5355, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/5355

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  718298ff0a8a1764f4dd0750ab6589d7604c78a1d635f7719d25341a0924acd8

  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 June 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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