Accountability in Foreign Animal Research Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5020.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. McCLAIN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 130, July 27, 2023, Page H4145):
  Article I Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To prohibit the use of taxdollars to support animal experimentation in the laboratories of adversarial nations.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 27, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  174 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5020, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5020

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ce0810357d895c2384e9d4bcc12c940f5b113fb42bcb75101f7be9efea176ed8

  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. 5020, 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.