To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform the process for inspection of applicants for admission.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6477.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WEBER of Texas, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 192, November 21, 2023, Page H5903):
  Article I, Section VIII The single subject of this legislation is: Border Security
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 21, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  82 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6477, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6477

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 24, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  730f5505bf6c4600295f1d0648d15c3d5a897697ceaa39cc3fea57a6586c13be

  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 July 24, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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