Chinese Government COVID-19 Accountability Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6405.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. STEUBE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 166, No. 60, March 26, 2020, Page H1729):
  To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; To establish Post Offices and Post Roads; To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; To constitute Tribunals inferior to the…
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 26, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  2,292 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6405, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/6405

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 23, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d9c24e4574cda78aaeac0f9c43dbba747dbdd7ce189e62cb2ded86aebc3f64a7

  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 23, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 6405, last updated January 23, 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.