To authorize the Directors of Veterans Integrated Service Networks of the Department of Veterans Affairs to enter into contracts with appropriate civilian accreditation entities or appropriate health care evaluation entities to investigate medical centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6435.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MULLIN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 174, December 5, 2016, Page H7181):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the U.S. Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 5, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

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  56 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6435, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/6435

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  5493b606f6da7a6de806a0304de48f62573118d0a0371684d7d6009008cd8c5f

  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.

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