No Exemption for Washington from Obamacare Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1953.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DeSANTIS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 59, April 22, 2015, Page H2418):
  Article I, Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 22, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

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  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1953, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1953

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0f6ea55043967aebc7557007b2d1de975d0c9af29bc0cf7abe68eb60b543f480

  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 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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