To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from revising the approved oil and gas leasing program for fiscal years 2017 through 2022.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2248.

• 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. 163, No. 73, April 28, 2017, Page H2973):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 28, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  30 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2248, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/2248

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 4, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f57b09b61eb7ef964350f907e4048d9168b2ab8afb9cc948c96820d4f75a3e52

  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 4, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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