Pay Our Troops Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9699.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. KIGGANS of Virginia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 146, September 19, 2024, Page H5525):
  Article I, Sect. 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To appropriate unobligated funds for FY25 towards paying members of the Armed Forces, the Coast Guard, and certain civilian employees and contractors at the Department of Defense until the passage of a Continuing Resolution or Defense Appropriations bill for FY25.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 19, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

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  326 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9699, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9699

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8fc7560ee45e7dba35dd543ac986e0e9f469d73cc9bc89724b7196792f99fd37

  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 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 9699, last updated August 6, 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.