To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to reauthorize the transmission facilitation program.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7043.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PAPPAS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 9, January 13, 2026, Page H718):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 13, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  31 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7043, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/7043

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 4, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e113d81a201b090d0ceaf53e34c5719cebe94013918f18629d4760ebc724bc62

  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 February 4, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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