Undersea Cable Control Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2503.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2503, Undersea Cable Control Act” on April 28, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on April 9, 2025”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 28, 2025 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61364

  CBO publication date

  April 28, 2025

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2503, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2503

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 11, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  55ab7852304526202e658b72be27ca324c650dd8d4b2d0daa34b282cb27bb067

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KEAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 57, March 31, 2025, Page H1375):
  Article I, Section 8, clause 3, provides Congress with the power to ``regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.'' The Supreme Court has held that the ``power of Congress to promote interstate commerce also includes the power to regulate . . . local activities in both the States of origin and destination, which might have a substantial and harmful effect upon that commerce,'' including local discriminatory activities that have a ``disruptive effect . . . on commercial intercourse.'' See Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, 379 U.S. 241, 257-58 (1964).
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 31, 2025 ↗

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  Statement length

  616 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2503, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2503

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 11, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  55ab7852304526202e658b72be27ca324c650dd8d4b2d0daa34b282cb27bb067

  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 committee report (as of July 11, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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