Agriculture Export Promotion Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 648.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. NEWHOUSE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 20, January 31, 2023, Page H577):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to extend and expand the Market Access Program and the Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 31, 2023 ↗

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  253 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 648, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/648

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8281297ef7a7934329410c742504d64985e91feabb73919300088a3905df17e5

  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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