To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize additional emergency uses for medical products to reduce deaths and severity of injuries caused by agents of war, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4374.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WALDEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 185, November 13, 2017, Page H9179):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 13, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  65 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4374, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/4374

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ed03e793406df8ff6528a6afadf0e9a9973a80a1a160dc9f39a439d0e76b424e

  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 June 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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