To amend the Natural Gas Act to establish a deadline for the review of applications for natural gas export and import orders, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8022.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 66, April 16, 2024, Page H2444):
  Under Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, Congress has the power ``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 any Department or Officer thereof'' The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Natural Gas Act to establish a deadline for the review of applications for natural gas export and import orders, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 16, 2024 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8022, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8022

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 15, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f0c06b450d76966853d854c4c35d1cc1242700e801b02f7ce46b3a7e054e5428

  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 January 15, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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