To authorize the President to award the Medal of Honor to Waverly B. Woodson, Jr., for acts of valor during World War II.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8194.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. TRONE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 166, No. 154, September 8, 2020, Page H4331):
  Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 8, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  62 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8194, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/8194

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9c8ac37a395e3949a05d8b01e33c9ebb4fae533199d32fc889f753bb8446dcac

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

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