To allow Federal State Department employees to file a confidential or open report on any fiscal waste that they come across and establishes an award program for exemplary employees who file non-confidential reports on wasteful spending.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6237.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BAIRD, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 183, November 6, 2023, Page H5466):
  ``Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitution in that the legislation exercises legislative powers granted to Congress by that clause ``to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers and all other Powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States or any Department or Office thereof.'' The single subject of this legislation is: To allow Federal State Department employees to file a confidential or open report on any fiscal waste that they come across and establishes an award program for exemplary employees who file non-confidential reports on wasteful spending and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 6, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

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  688 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6237, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6237

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  November 19, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  063601018f54f6ffe34cd799167143b6dd35b5ed16d475058473f908ce1f4bff

  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 November 19, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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