BUILD Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8451.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. COSTA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 86, May 17, 2024, Page H3357):
  Article I, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To establish a grant program for certain institutions of higher education to plan and implement projects for economic and community development in economically distressed communities.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 17, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  247 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8451, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8451

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 19, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  80ca46483564d92ea35226c3389b0542d05a398c25c1119fd48e2878b90df183

  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 19, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 8451, last updated August 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.