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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9646.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. STEUBE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 145, September 18, 2024, Page H5447):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 The single subject of this legislation is: To prohibit the availability of Federal funds to support the armed forces of Lebanon, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 18, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  183 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9646, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9646

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 16, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4f658d0abf123a57f3fe586bb478284f386b952e055068996e3b799017e1c675

  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 16, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 9646, last updated December 16, 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.