No Ransom Payments Act of 2016

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5940.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. POMPEO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 133, September 6, 2016, Page H5096):
  Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 and 18 of the U.S. Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 6, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  63 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5940, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5940

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 14, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3534ea68f4efa662fc7e8bc3206fdc927649fb3d580155bf0dad7b70276d85c0

  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 January 14, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5940, last updated January 14, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.