Adding Zika Virus to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4400.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BUTTERFIELD, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 18, February 1, 2016, Page H431):
  The Constitutional authority in which this bill rests is the power of the Congress to regulate Commerce as enumerated by Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 as applied to healthcare.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 1, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  177 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4400, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4400

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  62fe8ec3546d2ea34d7ca010bc66b11ef52a2ffc4c66d7eb3bda550c3d4825af

  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. 4400, 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.