POW Priority Care Act of 2025

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5539.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WALBERG, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 154, September 19, 2025, Page H4490):
  Article I, Section 8, Clauses 12, 14, and 18 of the Constitution of the United States: the authority to raise and support an army, to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces and to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper carrying into execution the foregoing powers.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 19, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  310 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5539, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5539

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  November 17, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9b3c2dc4ccd616930440e2b5f8a51f46d9cbc5536dd044d41afae6a6c8d99120

  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 November 17, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5539, last updated November 17, 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.