Safeguarding Trade Opportunities and Preventing China’s Anti-Competitive Practices Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7997.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DUNN of Florida, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 64, April 15, 2024, Page H2398):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: international trade.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 15, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  84 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7997, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7997

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 19, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  1fdd9ff5525f3e37fe58c284508cd8472f50050dd1b2a357651dd24c59ae7d57

  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 December 19, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7997, last updated December 19, 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.