To award posthumously a Congressional Gold Medal, in commemoration to the servicemembers who perished in Afghanistan on August 26, 2021, during the evacuation of citizens of the United States and Afghan allies at Hamid Karzai International Airport, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5142.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. McCLAIN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 152, August 31, 2021, Page H4501):
  Article I, Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 31, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5142, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/5142

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c186196edebfeace6f7d1ce47cf0ddc8e00863500ec3eea4adc13d7f9de7a908

  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 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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