To amend the African Growth and Opportunity Act to exclude from eligibility each sub-Saharan African country that does not effectively enforce its environmental laws and fulfill its international environmental obligations.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 10548.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DOGGETT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 152, September 24, 2026, Page H6004):
  Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 24, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  69 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 10548, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/10548

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  October 5, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  October 6, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0ae0ab9114d7f7dc57278cdeaf6faf2d25b8e6e2cb7c7e5af409ec637fee743b

  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 October 5, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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