To prohibit the National Science Foundation from conducting a study of the history of standards and standardization in the United States.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5378.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. RYAN of Ohio, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 84, May 26, 2016, Page H3296):
  Article I, Section 8: 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 May 26, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  254 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5378, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5378

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  15f4ce0d98b2131e387f94965d155132944c1c9676b8ba1d44178ad0a4c46afa

  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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