Border Security and Terrorism Prevention Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6170.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WILLIAMS of Texas, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 180, November 1, 2023, Page H5231):
  Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States. The single subject of this legislation is: Ceases immigration functions at the Southern Border until the Secretary of Homeland Security can ensure that no individual on the Federal Terrorist Watch list can enter the United States of America.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 1, 2023 ↗

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  304 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6170, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6170

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 18, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f277e8a8c2b3a45b8500ab6c8aafc6bedcd55326bd7750293157aebb9fc0c9de

  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 18, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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