To amend title 10 to shorten breach reporting timelines, increase program transparency, and improve congressional oversight of Department of Defense cost overruns with respect to the cost growth for major systems, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4372.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GARAMENDI, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 120, July 14, 2025, Page H3245):
  Article I, Section 8, clause 14, Military Rules and Regulations
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 14, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  63 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4372, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4372

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  5653d4b6eb907ea26d9edc81e0917bec57de6636f46a38c326ddfb3d8d249b84

  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 August 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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