To establish a Congressional COVID-19 Aid Oversight Panel, to authorize the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program to coordinate audits and investigations in connection with the receipt of Federal aid related to COVID-19, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6319.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PHILLIPS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 166, No. 57, March 23, 2020, Page H1717):
  The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is the power of Congress 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 any Department or Officer thereof'', as enumerated in Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 23, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  396 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6319, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/6319

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  168013359cba6029f7dcdcb4dc589d767a598282e8787d038e71dd0dfd2cb2cf

  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 April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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