Thiokol Memorial Gold Medal Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6559.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CARTER of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 208, December 10, 2025, Page H5561):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 10, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  40 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6559, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6559

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 6, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  1827b6c49f25451e5a4206900296b02f7bf2cb92015de7496db35876bf269502

  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 January 6, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 6559, last updated January 6, 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.