PLAN for Broadband Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4505.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WALBERG, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 117, July 10, 2023, Page H3177):
  Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To direct the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to develop a National Strategy to Close the Digital Divide.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 10, 2023 ↗

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  229 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4505, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4505

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  dea9167c61dc6ecf75ac669e3e9254787e73a639b8122c000c451a361ca7670c

  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 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4505, last updated December 5, 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.