To authorize the establishment in the Department of State of a Negotiations Support Unit, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8712.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. JACOBS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 99, June 12, 2024, Page H3975):
  Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To authorize the establishment in the Department of State of a Negotiations Support Unit, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 12, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  199 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8712, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8712

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 19, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  432a75a5bba309f66c669af6c07204bd2568f7ec5497651e6a20f999838b10cc

  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.

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