Justice for Child Victims Act of 2016

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6440.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GOWDY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 175, December 6, 2016, Page H7272):
  The bill derives its authority from Congress' Article 1, Section 8, Clause 9 authority to ``constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court.'' This authority includes the rules and procedures used by inferior federal courts.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 6, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  227 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6440, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/6440

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  41d6f4102be798f46b919067446178439609840e1a9d7bf28ba7917ad9e19a11

  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.

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