To authorize the President to award the Medal of Honor to Joseph M. Perez for acts of valor while serving as a member of the Army during the Vietnam War.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5168.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MOYLAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 134, August 8, 2023, Page H4172):
  Pursuant to Article one of the United States Constitution Congress has the power to enact this legislation. The single subject of this legislation is: To authorize the President to award the Medal of Honor to Joseph M. Perez for acts of valor as a member of the Army during the Vietnam War.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 8, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  290 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5168, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5168

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 9, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  dbf0116b499fbea8561451d8e490d61c54e1dc56be6fae947b016e9422cda3e0

  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 September 9, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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