GUARD Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8166.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SELF, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 60, March 30, 2026, Page H2818):
  Congress has the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, and to regulate commerce with foreign nations, pursuant to Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 and 3 of the Constitution of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 30, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  217 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8166, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8166

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 14, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  42e8b98912aef0e2dbd79d6b6278288499cd7ea61858ff90cc2839ba1ca930f4

  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 April 14, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 8166, last updated April 14, 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.