Natural Gas Gathering Enhancement Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1616.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CRAMER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 50, March 25, 2015, Page H2034):
  The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is the power of Congress to make Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States, as enumerated in Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2, of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 25, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  267 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1616, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1616

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0c91ee643456f8a2af7aeceb8dcd62aebd1e7cd688e31ec1c40613ae9ddbd981

  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 10, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1616, last updated January 10, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.