Fentanyl is a WMD Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 128.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. BOEBERT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 1, January 3, 2025, Page H40):
  Article 1 Section 8: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States The single subject of this legislation is: This bill would require the Assistant Secretary for the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office of the Department of Homeland Security to treat illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2025 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 128, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/128

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 19, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ff75dfa885128cd3bfcd5a7264ed9c17fef7c294d802fe0cb11893c8130683b0

  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 September 19, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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