Taliban Rare Earth Minerals Sanctions Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5404.

• 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. 167, No. 169, September 28, 2021, Page H5506):
  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 September 28, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  2,292 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5404, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/5404

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2ce1759da27825fab11e94566c916cdc8010dea113cccaa872b0c1ced84d016d

  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 3, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5404, last updated January 3, 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.