To provide for the foreign assistance authority of the Department of State, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5250.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 148, September 10, 2025, Page H4239):
  Article I Sec. 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 10, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  16 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5250, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5250

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 15, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  37d389dec82e55f09a8a72e023ebf8099528828fdedc6b3a0e08180407798ccc

  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 December 15, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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