To authorize the President to award the Medal of Honor to James Capers, Jr., for acts of valor as a member of the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 587.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. NORMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 17, January 26, 2023, Page H430):
  Article I, Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 26, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 587, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/587

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 9, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  643f48ba74824a825b9e00b8bcde79dcfb983cc423b57e30aaf980dde5812522

  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 September 9, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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