To direct the Department of Defense to report to Congress on the efforts of the Department to coordinate with the defense industrial base for purposes of countering certain capabilities of the People's Liberation of Army.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6902.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. SLOTKIN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 211, December 22, 2023, Page H7008):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Office thereof. The single subject of this legislation is: To direct the Department of Defense to report to Congress on the efforts of the Department to coordinate with the defense industrial base for purposes of countering certain capabilities of the People's Liberation Army.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 22, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  526 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6902, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6902

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  710ddd7d4b8ce16ec2c14d0ab31e9bfdd0f052b804560903010073af23f242c2

  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 June 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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