Undersea Cable Control Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1189.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1189, Undersea Cable Control Act” on March 10, 2023. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on February 28, 2023”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 10, 2023 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58998

  CBO publication date

  March 10, 2023

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1189, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1189

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MAST, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 36, February 24, 2023, Page H876):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: Requires the development of a strategy to eliminate the availability to foreign adversaries of goods and technologies capable of supporting undersea cables.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 24, 2023 ↗

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  Statement length

  266 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1189, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1189

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  31c3ef1c9a2912a709867f51c304529c1194c63a04f4fb5bb8fce45f5b35bbee

  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 committee report (as of May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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