To revise the boundaries of certain John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System units in New Jersey.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6400.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PALLONE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 170, November 29, 2016, Page H6365):
  Article I, section 8 of the Constitution of the United States grants Congress the authority to enact this bill.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 29, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  111 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6400, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/6400

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f7147aa4afbe212690594e20692b30f2fd7dbd6e8c544c249b8d8c869fd52b94

  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 December 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 6400, last updated December 6, 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.