To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to waive certain requirements for naturalization for American Samoan United States nationals to become United States citizens, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3482.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. RADEWAGEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 107, June 25, 2019, Page H5168):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 25, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  55 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3482, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3482

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7ab2a446406aa119dad97b99d52207c2ec0bcbad1729591023ca305bbfaba37a

  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 3, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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