To require to Comptroller General to submit to Congress a report on the status of dams in the USDA watershed program.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4959.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. VAN ORDEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 130, July 27, 2023, Page H4142):
  Article IV, Section 3, clause 2 (Property Clause) The single subject of this legislation is: To require to Comptroller General to submit to Congress a report on the status of dams in the USDA watershed program.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 27, 2023 ↗

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  210 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4959, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4959

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  November 14, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  deb8f7509bd959b5e6acd9b5234a70553026c448192fcecec746a7e2839f56e4

  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 November 14, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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