Preserving Welfare for Needs Not Weed Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5853.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. REICHERT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 164, No. 80, May 16, 2018, Page H4139):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, to ``provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 16, 2018 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  145 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5853, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/5853

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  90ba94acf1f8f8a94a1ae09417c80fcd3168ee59bdc2804b1029819fa8653285

  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 August 11, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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