Medicare Negotiation and Competitive Licensing Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1046.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DOGGETT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 24, February 7, 2019, Page H1462):
  Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 7, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  69 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1046, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/1046

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  db1fb1b2d503e842e7781fbb8fa346bbc107a560c6ee047bb07e727879573511

  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. 1046, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 20, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.