Balanced Agricultural Support and Efficiency Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5551.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 156, September 23, 2025, Page H4494):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 23, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  46 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5551, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5551

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 4, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  378ce0ea45a574278c7a4494a01eb51cf098957c1cf5a6185aacee62319d024f

  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 June 4, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5551, last updated June 4, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.