Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act of 2015

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2717.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FARR, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 92, June 10, 2015, Page H4137):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clauses 3 and 18; the Commerce clause and Necessary and Proper clause, which grant Congress the power to make laws that regulate commerce.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 10, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  160 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2717, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/2717

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  378a5d8c665592532d847f790c2b299f72409f5916af02ef4da80cc04a217a29

  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 August 12, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2717, last updated August 12, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.