Strengthening the Quad Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5375.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5375, Strengthening the Quad Act” on December 21, 2023. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on November 29, 2023”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, December 21, 2023 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59810

  CBO publication date

  December 21, 2023

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5375, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5375

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4d8f0765f2ac75b529883a8b1fbff6d7830802afd77753693d2f719845e52a82

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MEEKS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 145, September 8, 2023, Page H4231):
  Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To require a strategy for bolstering engagement and cooperation between the United States, Australia, India, and Japan and to seek to establish a Quad Intra-Parliamentary Working Group to facilitate closer cooperation on shared interests and values.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 8, 2023 ↗

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  Statement length

  333 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5375, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5375

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4d8f0765f2ac75b529883a8b1fbff6d7830802afd77753693d2f719845e52a82

  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 committee report (as of May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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