Protecting American Energy Production Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 26.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PFLUGER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 1, January 3, 2025, Page H36):
  Article I, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To prohibit a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  124 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 26, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/26

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 12, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  850c59cd9be22fe0a18efc4dce6d1d122ab0b47ffdae61559d0c1a644d407a51

  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 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 26, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 12, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.