To amend section 320301 of title 54, United States Code, to modify the authority of the President of the United States to declare national monuments, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2258.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BUCK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 72, May 12, 2015, Page H2878):
  SUCH AS Article IV, section 3 of the Constitution of the United States grants Congress the authority to enact this bill. The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 12, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  414 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2258, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/2258

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  November 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b26b9cccd43c5c8ddb703f8638d18c201ac2c4a2d7143b8a01bbb8f3ef98c8f2

  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 November 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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