Immigration for a Competitive America Act of 2016

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5398.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. RICE of South Carolina, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 89, June 7, 2016, Page H3503):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4 of the United States Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 7, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  64 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5398, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5398

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  129bc96a8ee9e296f5877238c5b6d69ad439c5b9ffcffdce92a34128fe0ce60c

  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 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5398, last updated December 6, 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.