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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2994.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WITTMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 106, June 21, 2017, Page H5049):
  The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is the power of Congress ``to provide for the common Defence . . . to raise and support Armies . . . to provide and maintain a Navy'' and ``to make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces'' as enumerated in Article I, section 8 of the United States Constitution. ____________________
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 21, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  366 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2994, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/2994

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8c5245abb601b16ef2d5dbf513179a2fce98c6b25085f15afdfcd5e3cac5db0c

  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 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2994, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 21, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.