To amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 to exempt certain military installations from guidance regarding the maintenance of the aggregate square footage of facilities of the Department of Defense.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9153.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LUCAS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 95, June 4, 2026, Page H3908):
  Article 1, Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 4, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9153, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/9153

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 22, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  544cdbc491e3e9048571cf93a7e552516fc4a97c8b75ef6de1e83b76e07e4a84

  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 June 22, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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