Venue Named Under Exception Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 194.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SELF, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 1, January 3, 2025, Page H42):
  Article I, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: The VENUE Act would allow individuals charged with a crime on federal property in the National Capital Region to transfer their trial to a federal court in their home jurisdiction.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2025 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  244 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 194, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/194

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b8a32155c681903ef5619d5f850c2aa543b097cb90e597690b7c2ee5735596d9

  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 May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 194, last updated May 27, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.