Preventing Adversaries from Developing Critical Capabilities Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6349.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 6349, Preventing Adversaries from Developing Critical Capabilities Act” on June 21, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on November 29, 2023”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 21, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60442

  CBO publication date

  June 21, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6349, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6349

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0b14bb83c81d404303dc39efc48780452ad13e2c137256f43eb277d54501216f

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. McCAUL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 186, November 9, 2023, Page H5671):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: To prohibit or require notification with respect to certain activities of United States persons involving countries of concern.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 9, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  217 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6349, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6349

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0b14bb83c81d404303dc39efc48780452ad13e2c137256f43eb277d54501216f

  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 committee report (as of May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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