Food and Fuel Consumer Protection Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2540.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FLORES, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 75, May 7, 2019, Page H3475):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 7, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  72 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2540, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/2540

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 16, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  792a330c0e8956ed97eb73abed20fa00c6c0b35281a189f1b5ea27fea67bcd9c

  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 January 16, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2540, last updated January 16, 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.