No Censors on our Shores Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9605.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ISSA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 143, September 16, 2024, Page H5239):
  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 Congress's power to regulate foreign commerce includes the power to regulate the entry of persons into the country. See Henderson v. Mayor of New York, 92 U.S. 259, 270-71 (1876). The single subject of this legislation is: To provide that any foreign government official who engages in censorship of American speech is inadmissible and deportable.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 16, 2024 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9605, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9605

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6a87fcd2eedb581a75634b45517c016a8f155d241c3218442ca8cbcf4402479b

  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 May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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