To amend title 36, United States Code, to authorize the American Battle Monuments Commission to acquire, operate, and maintain the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial in Marnes-la-Coquette, France, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5937.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MILLER of Florida, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 133, September 6, 2016, Page H5096):
  Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 6, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  55 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5937, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5937

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a80fb40c1d3ed92e909f5889cf802ee7956afd9ed939ac45c582f2d650bb9eac

  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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