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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6704.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. McBATH, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 203, December 11, 2023, Page H6815):
  Interstate Commerce Clause--Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 The single subject of this legislation is: to establish a grant program for States to improve or establish credential repositories
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 11, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  189 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6704, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6704

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  cc04e74483d938d1820bf5ca9c550d0000cf1c67f9cef4f8817c298b39183cdc

  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 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 6704, last updated July 21, 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.