BOLIVAR Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 825.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WALTZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 22, February 2, 2023, Page H683):
  Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution, which provides Congress with the ability to enact legislation necessary and proper to effectuate its purposes in taxing and spending. The single subject of this legislation is: Foreign Affairs
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 2, 2023 ↗

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  262 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 825, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/825

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c458d84fc69e292352f9d9f9bdf5ed406e47ce7919f2c8935478f4b174f1c2dc

  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 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 825, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.