Protecting America's Health Measures Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5436.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. McDERMOTT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 91, June 9, 2016, Page H3664):
  The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is the power of Congress to lay and collect duties and to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, as enumerated in Article I, Section 8.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 9, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  190 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5436, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5436

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e3de121deddc195a839d75285dbf5d82d491892c8db447739b695625b653a14e

  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.

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