Farmer-Informed WOTUS Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4956.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. YAKYM, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 130, July 27, 2023, Page H4142):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: This legislation would create an Advisory Committee at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to advise on the impacts of recent Waters of the United States rulemakings.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 27, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  274 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4956, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4956

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d898661104e97772f128dd084d2f0d08840d3393c92a2fb7401fd7a35b5cb27e

  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. 4956, 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.