To provide for a limitation on availability of funds for US Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Integrated Activities for fiscal year 2024.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2253.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BIGGS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 57, March 29, 2023, Page H1655):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: The single subject of this bill is providing for a limitation on funding for a discretionary spending item.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 29, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  171 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2253, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2253

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 24, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2980a8bfd904c3411040742cf83aa570cf1937aaea62517b2860d02b169eda4a

  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 July 24, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2253, last updated July 24, 2024. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.