To authorize the Secretary of Defense to establish a pilot program to assess the efficacy of providing junior enlisted members of the Armed Forces a monthly coupon for use in procuring food at commissaries.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6586.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PANETTA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 208, December 10, 2025, Page H5562):
  Article 1, Clause 8, Section 18
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 10, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

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  31 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6586, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6586

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 22, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ac12cb41d234951e174b6e92d4e2a6e98025ba9608a30e4424eecfcdb4085472

  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 22, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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