Fair Care for Vietnam Veterans Act of 2021

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1972.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HARDER of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 50, March 17, 2021, Page H1500):
  U.S. Const. art. 1, sec. 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 17, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  26 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1972, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/1972

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7b87168893e5a122609cdc968abe06cfe18e25d45cc657cdc9fb1f59b7ac52f5

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1972, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 16, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.