To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for the issuance of up-to-date regulations and guidance applying to the dissemination by means of the Internet of information about medical products.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2479.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LONG, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 78, May 20, 2015, Page H3507):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution, which states ``To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper in the Government of the United States or in any Department or Officer thereof''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 20, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

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  201 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2479, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/2479

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b4a794f6d7076c4b247af603914accf5d55c8b964377b8a9f52f611e99c2aef2

  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 3, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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