TIGER Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6609.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 6609, Foreign Military Sales Technical, Industrial, and Governmental Engagement for Readiness Act” on March 29, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on February 6, 2024”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 29, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60015

  CBO publication date

  March 29, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6609, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6609

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f1d4da8d66fa8e2b2646db931fa006f7229d190cd5b6668db225ca84d49f4844

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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. WALTZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 200, December 5, 2023, Page H6145):
  Section 8, ``The Congress Shall have Power . . . To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;'' The single subject of this legislation is: Foreign Military Sales
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 5, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  217 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6609, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6609

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f1d4da8d66fa8e2b2646db931fa006f7229d190cd5b6668db225ca84d49f4844

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 6609, last updated May 27, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.