Securing Our Borders and Wilderness Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4872.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 128, July 25, 2023, Page H3952):
  Article I, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To authorize Customs and Border Protection officers to conduct activities on federal wilderness land in order to secure our borders.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 25, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  196 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4872, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4872

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  October 31, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2c82ad57d2c69dcd0676d047b3bd6eec25b879593137d934644b60c4d88c9ea1

  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 October 31, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4872, last updated October 31, 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.