Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2015

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3061.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WELCH, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 109, July 14, 2015, Page H5172):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18: The Congress shall have Power To . . . make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 14, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  301 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3061, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3061

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7a3cc0a8521c121d37e761afda1ac27ba52d5d1f70d207b913413814962b0397

  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 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3061, last updated December 5, 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.