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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 788.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LaLOTA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 18, January 28, 2025, Page H407):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 28, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  54 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 788, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/788

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 12, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  fef186118751b8c13e4e32fcc3cd0907ad711f0cc06bfa834a16dcd56aeec163

  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 September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 788, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 12, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.