Safeguarding American Farms from Foreign Influence Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5409.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5409, Safeguarding American Farms from Foreign Influence Act” on November 21, 2023. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on September 20, 2023”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 21, 2023 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59787

  CBO publication date

  November 21, 2023

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5409, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5409

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  039c916bc62691d61af5dcc81a96141c0f79ce51494450494497b8961571575e

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 118-801 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Financial Services Committee on December 5, 2024.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported December 5, 2024 ↗

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  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/118/HRPT/801

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5409, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5409

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  039c916bc62691d61af5dcc81a96141c0f79ce51494450494497b8961571575e

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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. LUETKEMEYER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 147, September 12, 2023, Page H4265):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 to require the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to determine whether a national security review is needed for reportable agriculturalland transactions by the Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 12, 2023 ↗

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  Statement length

  345 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5409, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5409

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  039c916bc62691d61af5dcc81a96141c0f79ce51494450494497b8961571575e

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