To advance Thomas B. Hagen on the retired list of the Navy.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4547.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 123, July 17, 2025, Page H3477):
  Necessary and Proper Clause (Art. 1, Sec. 8, Cl. 18)
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 17, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

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  52 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4547, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4547

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 19, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  eb2e9cf6e21f2e53e43748b58dd09dd5487fb170461daa9ce837d203fd221a97

  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 19, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4547, last updated September 19, 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.