CHARGE Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5154.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 133, August 4, 2023, Page H4166):
  Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to promulgate regulations with respect to regional and interregional transmission planning, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 4, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  279 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5154, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5154

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  35ed36ccf2c5ba9393e2e1c6e3ea222efb675258c2148164772d7fa687b8d5ac

  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. 5154, 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.