To amend title 49, United States Code, with respect to certain grant assurances, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5944.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. UPTON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 134, September 7, 2016, Page H5162):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18: The Congress shall have Power To . . . make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 7, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  301 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5944, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5944

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  57117cde1cc93d2b830e646258ea303d633b50dfb2c6a1e7bb1bb4b7bf4bf9d5

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5944, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.