Foreign Extortion Prevention Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4696.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. JACKSON LEE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 123, July 18, 2023, Page H3700):
  Article I, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: Foreign Extortion of U.S. Businesses in doing Business overseas
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 18, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

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  127 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4696, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4696

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  bfe59d714c0d8c6737ef973923cbaed5c8bffba3739dc773e0ca61ec5d5e5d68

  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.

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