To provide that members of the Armed Forces performing services in Kenya, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Chad shall be entitled to tax benefits in the same manner as if such services were performed in a combat zone.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2157.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PANETTA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 49, March 14, 2025, Page H1164):
  Article I, Section 8, clause 1
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 14, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

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  30 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2157, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2157

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 6, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  5f6a37ad51c86564dd5544064b7c7d747aece9981f2f057afa93cc091ad2fe90

  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 March 6, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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