To authorize the President to posthumously award the Medal of Honor to Alwyn C. Cashe for acts of valor during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8276.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. MURPHY of Florida, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 166, No. 160, September 16, 2020, Page H4491):
  Article I, Section 8, which gives Congress the power to provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; to raise and support armies; and to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 16, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  256 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8276, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/8276

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b57369c3ad27f888c872e35859783e7b391503c78f01d423597110c79b0c125e

  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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