To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing oil and gas leases on portions of the Outer Continental Shelf located off the coast of New Jersey.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 728.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LoBIONDO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 15, January 30, 2017, Page H745):
  The Congress enacts this bill pursuant to Section 8 of Article 1 of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 30, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  99 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 728, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/728

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  1e26f6ca4a743ea61a6d6f95e33e65bcf3cc9e46c1cc01d3ea16cc6d2cc32441

  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 April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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