To suspend, and subsequently terminate, the admission of certain refugees, to examine the impact on the national security of the United States of admitting refugees, to examine the costs of providing benefits to such individuals, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5816.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BABIN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 114, July 14, 2016, Page H5013):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 Article I, Section 8, Clause 18
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 14, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  62 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5816, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5816

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  37239a923534a4c51fbb06d22a11e0c43dfdb392247e7e62c9de18035952b733

  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 April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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