Foreign Investment Transparency and Accountability Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8636.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MOOLENAAR, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 96, June 5, 2024, Page H3674):
  Article I, Section 8, clause 3, provides Congress with the power to ``regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.'' The Supreme Court has held that the ``power of Congress to promote interstate commerce also includes the power to regulate . . . local activities in both the States of origin and destination, which might have a substantial and harmful effect upon that commerce,'' including local discriminatory activities that have a ``disruptive effect . . . on commercial intercourse.'' The single subject of this legislation is: The purpose of the bill is to have a more transparent notification process to Congress to help identify policy…
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 5, 2024 ↗

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  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

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  1,118 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8636, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8636

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 16, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  228dee974e79ca04f2cae75a7a4797e10be657172a47f685532622e1338a56ce

  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 16, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 8636, last updated January 16, 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.