To authorize the Development Finance Corporation to invest in Venezuela.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8974.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ISSA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 87, May 21, 2026, Page H3725):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 21, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  65 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8974, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8974

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  19e432c9936e8714e84e272b7fa4b2d0a47de89a909410be8971240d1d66472f

  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 May 28, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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