Millennium Challenge Corporation Candidate Country Reform Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3042.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3042, Millennium Challenge Corporation Candidate Country Reform Act” on July 24, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on July 11, 2024”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 24, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60528

  CBO publication date

  July 24, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3042, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/3042

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  df62c88ea3720c4ce5d5c71b43f4845aedbb7a32389284c84fc70f97634449ed

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CASTRO of Texas, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 74, May 2, 2023, Page H2127):
  Constitutional Authority--Necessary and Proper Clause (Art. I, Sec. 8, Clause 18) The single subject of this legislation is: The bill would alter the criteria for the Millennium Challenge Corporation's list of candidate countries for development assistance.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 2, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  257 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3042, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/3042

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  df62c88ea3720c4ce5d5c71b43f4845aedbb7a32389284c84fc70f97634449ed

  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 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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