To establish a Joint Autonomy Office in the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3168.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WITTMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 78, May 9, 2023, Page H2174):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1: ``The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.'' The single subject of this legislation is: To establish a Joint Autonomy Office in the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 9, 2023 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3168, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/3168

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  dd57e88368983ed20aad933fb9e0ef288aaaf9885d8cb88b95de1008b2fe1320

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

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