Extending and Enhancing U.S.-U.K. Nuclear Cooperation for Mutual Defense Purposes Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9718.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 9718, Extending and Enhancing U.S.-U.K. Nuclear Cooperation for Mutual Defense Purposes Act” on November 4, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on September 24, 2024”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 4, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60858

  CBO publication date

  November 4, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9718, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9718

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 15, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c4c86fcbf453025efa52500cdc2e8f64364715a230c3e6cd4ccc53194226b8f2

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ZINKE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 147, September 20, 2024, Page H5562):
  Article I, section 8 of the U.S. Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To provide for the approval of the Amendment to the Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for Cooperation on the Uses of Atomic Energy for Mutual Defense Purposes
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 20, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  357 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9718, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9718

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 15, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c4c86fcbf453025efa52500cdc2e8f64364715a230c3e6cd4ccc53194226b8f2

  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 committee report (as of August 15, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 9718, last updated August 15, 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.