To prohibit the Secretary of Defense from entering into software source code contracts with entities with certain relationships with China, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3961.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FALLON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 101, June 12, 2025, Page H2822):
  Article 1, Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 12, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3961, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3961

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 22, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f85208090f3d3a6decbb4089f726d97e61370d0761b8e6561e0ae61a3e05e6b7

  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 July 22, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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