Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Executive Officer for Immigration Review relating to "Circumvention of Lawful Pathways".

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 83.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PFLUGER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 130, July 27, 2023, Page H4147):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: This resolution uses the Congressional Review Act to repeal the ``Circumention of Lawful Pathways'' rule.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 27, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  169 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 83, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hjres/83

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  bca9cd0781e169dfc423d3bea979a91c468932de5173e696e15ac7325541867c

  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 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.J.Res. 83, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.