To direct the Surface Transportation Board to require any high-speed rail project to acquire all land for the project before starting construction, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6365.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ELLZEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 168, No. 6, January 10, 2022, Page H9):
  Article I, Section 8 The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties. imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 10, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  282 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6365, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/6365

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0c4fc93488f2e9ee8581633cd63b634ca0db484bc11fb71749bf7dab6f0eb42d

  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.

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