Disaster Assistance Fairness and Accountability Act of 2015

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 638.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MacARTHUR, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 17, February 2, 2015, Page H704):
  This bill was introduced pursuant to powers granted to Congress under the General Welfare Clause (Art. 1, Sec. 8, Cl. 1) and the Necessary and Proper Clause (Art. 1, Sec. 8, Clause 18)
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 2, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  184 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 638, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/638

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b41ce1aeab078c57b5f1c7a097563714ec1a33b434066ebe0f751fe0f93c638a

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 638, last updated August 12, 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.