MARITIME Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2973.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2973, Maritime Architecture and Response to International Terrorism in the Middle East Act of 2023” on October 27, 2023. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on October 19, 2023”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 27, 2023 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59706

  CBO publication date

  October 27, 2023

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2973, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2973

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 6, 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 Mrs. RODGERS of Washington, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 71, April 27, 2023, Page H2088):
  The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is the power of Congress to ``provide for the common Defence'', ``to raise and support Armies'', and ``to make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces'' as enumerated in Article I, section 8 of the United States Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To require the Secretary of Defense to develop, in cooperation with allies and partners in the Middle East, an integrated maritime domain awareness and interdiction capability, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 27, 2023 ↗

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  Statement length

  551 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2973, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2973

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  bbbc857c7b34e1c43c4b634ee7db39c3c453bc077705f70e614993dd1bcf8158

  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 December 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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