No Funding or Enforcement of Censorship Abroad Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9850.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 150, September 25, 2024, Page H5832):
  Article I, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: Freedom of Speech
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 25, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  81 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9850, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9850

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 14, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  64b5c3295a808afc734a3e1827f3d3b0b046394f3b6d8b686cbb09299dbd1fa3

  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 14, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 9850, last updated August 14, 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.