Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6480.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. NUNES, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 177, December 8, 2016, Page H7569):
  The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, including those under Title 50, are carried out to support the national security interests of the United States, to enable the armed forces of the United States, and to support the President in executing the foreign policy of the United States. Article I, section 8 of the Constitution of the United States, in pertinent part, that ``Congress shall have power . . . to . . . provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States''; ``. . . to raise and support armies . . .''; to ``make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water''; and ``To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper…
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 8, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  877 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6480, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/6480

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  bea2be62f23b1fb177139c77e86231a17624b30c8e5585db770ced414db80402

  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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