Leasing and Infrastructure Act of 2025

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6599.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SMITH of Missouri, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 208, December 10, 2025, Page H5562):
  Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, which states: the Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 10, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  331 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6599, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6599

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 23, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7e0d25fc60fd95ed452f304a17f89819c3f408dbbf0e576e6019d1987d5df334

  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. 6599, 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.