Waters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act of 2015

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 594.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GOSAR, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 14, January 28, 2015, Page H663):
  The power to regulate inter-state commerce is set forth Article I, Section 8, Clause 3, the Power to ``regulate commerce among the several states!' If the matter in question is not a purely local matter (intra-state) or if it has an impact on inter-state commerce, it falls within the Congressional power to regulate interstate commerce. National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012). Also Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2; Article 6, Clause 2; and the 10th Amendment, which grants states all authority not explicitly given to the federal government, pursuant to which this bill seeks to return to the states authority previously and erroneously claimed by the federal…
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 28, 2015 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 594, 114th Congress

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  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/594

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

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  September 22, 2026

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  42ea69e8d7702bbbf170917f7009aaa0e988267e55b1ac45539026ed43c12046

  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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