Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1564.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ROY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 46, March 10, 2023, Page H1281):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitution--to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or any Department or Officer thereof. The single subject of this legislation is: To direct the State Department to designate certain Mexican Drug Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs).
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 10, 2023 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1564, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1564

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  195e234726b802637824dc0ef4ac06eec2ebecf08c1cd6398625344a228e9a50

  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.

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