To establish the Office of Critical Technologies and Security, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 618.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 9, January 16, 2019, Page H677):
  Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 16, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  45 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 618, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/618

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c2d950fc540fc7079c69f53f5d4706ce3f8853fd1b223ceb653f1fb75091028b

  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 August 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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