Economic Opportunity for Distressed Communities Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2292.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. EDWARDS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 53, March 24, 2025, Page H1219):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 Provides Congress with the power to ``lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 24, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  123 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2292, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2292

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 9, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  1b25ba1a97dfd5a291b2973ac6167396b96f15e65010d943116cbc2c9d349dce

  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 9, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2292, last updated May 9, 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.