Protecting Americans from Foreign Commercial Spyware Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5440.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HIMES, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 148, September 13, 2023, Page H4298):
  Article I, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit assistance to foreign governments that engage in the use of foreign commercial spyware to target United States persons, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 13, 2023 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  263 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5440, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5440

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ea2a35dbc59aed4f9dc112224fbc7fc9f917af47c678146d0450ef9da2e05095

  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 May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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