Enhancing Opportunities for Medical Doctors Act of 2016

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5188.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. LOVE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 74, May 11, 2016, Page H2281):
  The Constitutional authority in which this bill rests is in the power of the Congress To regulate Commerce as enumerated by Article 1, section 8 of the United States Constitution as applied to providing for the general Welfare of the United States through the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 11, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  302 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5188, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5188

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  216f13f1c90690d19093211169bb15ed85396728de82d00d1d20a272213f093d

  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. 5188, 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.