To prohibit funds made available to the Department of Health and Human Services by previous Appropriations Acts from being used for any activity that makes Medicare Advantage the default under the Medicare program.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6114.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. POCAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 194, November 18, 2025, Page H4771):
  Article 1, Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 18, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6114, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6114

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 2, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2c7b27da416d77e9ca85a09a7cbb585b592b69594b389ebc2bd74ce549b2d098

  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 2, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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