To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to treat certain planted soybean crops as harvested commodity crops under the Market Facilitation Program.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1238.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ABRAHAM, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 29, February 14, 2019, Page H2033):
  Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 14, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  63 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1238, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/1238

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b8f451ecaa70b18ee9d6a5046a7c6085850bbf7a69f17666869d1a3091cb55a8

  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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