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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 518.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LaLOTA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 9, January 16, 2025, Page H223):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 16, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  43 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 518, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/518

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  1fbaeceebfce271aff2ef433eeefc6ec5b4701c97b5fc9457c8b23a564907203

  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 March 11, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 518, last updated March 11, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.