To authorize the President to award the Medal of Honor to Ret. Col. Robert J. Graham for acts of valor while as a member of the Air Force during the Vietnam War.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5293.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BRESNAHAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 148, September 10, 2025, Page H4240):
  Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 10, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  106 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5293, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5293

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 19, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ee6f279aeb30b8a50965d7d9b2a6151a32d39b13ca4774357a180fcadfc98682

  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.

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