Fentanyl is a WMD Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7190.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. BOEBERT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 19, February 1, 2024, Page H389):
  Article 1 Section 8: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; The single subject of this legislation is: This bill would require the Assistant Secretary for the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office of the Department of Homeland Security to treat illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 1, 2024 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7190, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7190

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  October 22, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7c9d579b97568c4ef9dafdbe4b0f51d35148ef520cbd83b7aaae3983d18382e6

  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 October 22, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7190, last updated October 22, 2024. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.