DAMN Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7066.

• 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. 170, No. 11, January 22, 2024, Page H247):
  Article I, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: to prohibit the use of federal funds to allow or study the breach or alteration of the Lower Snake River dams or implement the Columbia Basin Restoration Initiative
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 22, 2024 ↗

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  228 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7066, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7066

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8a1fe8596c588edbb7cbdfe3befafff13d38c33900c223fb71ecd3847544e11e

  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 May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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