To provide that members of the Armed Forces performing services in Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Chad shall be entitled to tax benefits in the same manner as if such services were performed in a combat zone.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6001.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PANETTA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 172, October 19, 2023, Page H5033):
  Article I, Section 8, clause 1 The single subject of this legislation is: Tax benefits for servicemembers in the Sahel.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 19, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  119 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6001, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6001

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  405336ec73cf8f3a8d052f93693a834256430ac47dcd5a5406eb61dc1b38e83a

  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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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