Defund the CCP On Campus Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3757.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SANTOS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 93, May 31, 2023, Page H2708):
  US Constitution, Article 1 Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To prohibit the availability of Federal funds to institutions of higher education that fund Confucius Institutes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 31, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  193 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3757, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/3757

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f67e58af0f9abf056699bdb273048f77030eadf99fd3bd25a317b7b2d14de5e4

  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 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3757, last updated July 21, 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.