Protecting America's Food and Agriculture Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4482.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. VELA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 154, September 24, 2019, Page H7903):
  Article I, Section I, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution, in that the legislation concerns the exercise of legislative powers generally granted to Congress, including the exercise of those powers when delegated by Congress to the Executive. Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the U.S. Constitution in that the legislation exercises legislative powers granted to Congress by that clause ``to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Office thereof.'''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 24, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  621 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4482, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4482

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e305b2dd69e05b62408bdbdb747e91d983be9bcf3919aad93554cbd187120d8d

  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. 4482, 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.