Reunite Children With Their Parents Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6172.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 164, No. 104, June 21, 2018, Page H5506):
  Article I, section 8 of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to ``lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common defense and general Welfare of the United States.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 21, 2018 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  225 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6172, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/6172

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b387d06d0823836f9070d99b8debee00dc5cf1ea8fb03a80319e9588fdcf9b48

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 6172, last updated August 11, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.