To prohibit the use of Federal funds to establish or carry out the activities of a Disinformation Governance Board of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7690.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. McCARTHY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 168, No. 78, May 10, 2022, Page H4798):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States Article 1, Section 9, clause 7 of the Constitution of the United States
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 10, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  133 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7690, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/7690

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 30, 2022

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2e730e9ef7bf4389793962bf482344bb622a4f406c9facc165b8f71173ab09d5

  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 30, 2022). Not every bill gets one.

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