AUKUS Oversight and Accountability Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4725.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4725, AUKUS Oversight and Accountability Act” on October 23, 2023. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on July 26, 2023”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 23, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59445

  CBO publication date

  October 23, 2023

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4725, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4725

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b56a6c9cadfc42c9e86d449898776121886cfa95b47a78267372cd761aa0b7f1

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. McCAUL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 124, July 19, 2023, Page H3858):
  Article 1, section 8 of the U.S. Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To conduct oversight and accountability of the State Department's implementation of AUKUS.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 19, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  179 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4725, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4725

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b56a6c9cadfc42c9e86d449898776121886cfa95b47a78267372cd761aa0b7f1

  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 committee report (as of May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4725, last updated May 27, 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.