To ensure that goods made with forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China do not enter the United States market, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6256.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. McGOVERN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 215, December 14, 2021, Page H7824):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 and Clause 18
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 14, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  44 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6256, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/6256

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  fa1d215280a1efd7f238af941f7ff089752e1c770c283416e2a2f84b43e989bd

  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 April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 6256, last updated April 7, 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.