To prohibit the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service from awarding grants to entities that fund or support gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5493.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BISHOP of Utah, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 206, December 19, 2019, Page H12290):
  Article I, section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 19, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5493, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/5493

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4e6ef2e0b7f642cb30c37eaeb522d42a561650ac1fe9158a3c92e6f57654c4c1

  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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