Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6477.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CHABOT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 177, December 8, 2016, Page H7569):
  The constitutional authority on which this legislation is based is found in article I, section 8, clause 9; article III, section 1, clause 3; and article III, section 2, clause 2, of the Constitution, which grant Congress authority over federal courts.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 8, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  252 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6477, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/6477

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  74793b5c7efc1475e83500ca8a65db6d1118c4156e9752d108f3dc96c4b01d91

  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 January 10, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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