Countering China’s Exploitation of Strategic Metals and Minerals and Child and Forced Labor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4443.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 114, June 30, 2023, Page H3162):
  Article I, Section 10, Clause 2 The single subject of this legislation is: Trade
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 30, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  80 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4443, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4443

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 20, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ac99fd97f35b25812fc1b2d713f2797110c81c29742b23ac7f7c8e7499300216

  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 December 20, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4443, last updated December 20, 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.