TRICARE ECHO Improvement Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6148.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. COLE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 166, No. 45, March 9, 2020, Page H1556):
  Article I, Section 9, Clauses 12 and 13, which grant Congress the power to establish a military, and Clause 18, which grants Congress the necessary and proper powers to carry out its other enumerated powers
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 9, 2020 ↗

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  206 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6148, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/6148

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9b1e27bed4ddb57af40caa5d8d8dd96e595946396fc64cc022f9358ed84371e2

  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 June 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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