Baltimore BRIDGE Relief Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7961.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MFUME, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 62, April 11, 2024, Page H2318):
  Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 and Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 The single subject of this legislation is: To respond to the Baltimore Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 11, 2024 ↗

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  231 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7961, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7961

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 1, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d5a465cb43e8b6c0b265d8c99fd1ce31aa0229687924eda8ae6960b24e023c7a

  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 August 1, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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