VA Contracting and Procurement Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6549.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BERGMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 208, December 10, 2025, Page H5561):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 10, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  65 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6549, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6549

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 23, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b843af46076ed27454f16ff158855d05b18b4d241db17ae321c7bf1c83e363a8

  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 July 23, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 6549, last updated July 23, 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.