To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Toms River, New Jersey, the Leonard G. 'Bud' Lomell, Jr. VA Clinic, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9997.

• 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. 157, October 18, 2024, Page H5878):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 The single subject of this legislation is: Veterans Clinic Designation
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 18, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  102 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9997, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9997

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 16, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0e9f0a7eb5d760f340fefd8ffe8f8f17ed649bb4e8da1913fc4dc394119e38a1

  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.

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