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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5838.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. TONY GONZALES of Texas, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 159, September 29, 2023, Page H4911):
  Article 1, section 8, clause 1; Article 1, section 8, clause 18 The single subject of this legislation is: To improve immigration adjudicatory capacity, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 29, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  176 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5838, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5838

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 24, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  bf4cc42b9e5110820c2fecbacdac0b9f4cc719c7811e79ae070cb09347d85501

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5838, last updated July 24, 2024. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.