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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1456.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1456, Stopping Communist Regimes from Engaging in Edits Now Act” on November 30, 2023. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on July 26, 2023”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 30, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59699

  CBO publication date

  November 30, 2023

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1456, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1456

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 9, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  df8c369d76aea25b8a32309b6b11b233d189afe871a132d69d11148cf35e491f

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GREEN of Tennessee, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 44, March 8, 2023, Page H1208):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: Restricts the use of Department of State assets or technical assistance for U.S. film production entities if they engage in content censorship at the behest of the Chinese Communist Party.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 8, 2023 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  287 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1456, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1456

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 9, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  df8c369d76aea25b8a32309b6b11b233d189afe871a132d69d11148cf35e491f

  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 September 9, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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