Science Appropriations Act, 2026

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6938.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 6938, Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026” on January 7, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As posted on the website of the House Committee on Rules on January 5, 2026”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 7, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62008

  CBO publication date

  January 7, 2026

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6938, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6938

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 11, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9e5c8876445c89f7f6ded6a923717bc38db714666ef2066955d809fc689b1c2c

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. COLE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 3, January 6, 2026, Page H12):
  The principal constitutional authority for this legislation is clause 7 of section 9 of article I of the Constitution of the United States (the appropriation power), which states: ``No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law . . . .'' In addition, clause 1 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution (the spending power) provides: ``The Congress shall have the Power . . . to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States . . . .'' Together, these specific constitutional provisions establish the congressional power of the purse, granting Congress the authority to appropriate funds, to determine their…
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 6, 2026 ↗

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  Statement length

  803 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6938, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6938

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 11, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9e5c8876445c89f7f6ded6a923717bc38db714666ef2066955d809fc689b1c2c

  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 committee report (as of September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 6938, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 11, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.