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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 189.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. McCLINTOCK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 7, January 9, 2023, Page H112):
  Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 (the Property Clause), which confers on Congress the power to make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the property belonging to the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 9, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  188 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 189, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/189

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 24, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  143ca0dd40ce697f8494257ecdc496ca48c8427f32836b83406600a7ef201327

  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 January 24, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 189, last updated January 24, 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.