To prohibit the use of Federal funds for security protection for the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who served between January 1984 and December 2022.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5609.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. STRONG, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 152, September 20, 2023, Page H4439):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States The single subject of this legislation is: To prohibit the use of Federal funds for security protection for the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who served between January 1984 and December 2022.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 20, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  301 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5609, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5609

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 24, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e7196c4654a8521490c0be9656f59ab4468681cfb0269d428486b79f977ed63a

  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 July 24, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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