Sergeant First Class Jorge Otero Barreto Medal of Honor Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9595.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HERNANDEZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 111, July 6, 2026, Page H4375):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of the U.S. Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 6, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  57 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9595, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/9595

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 29, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  5fe224577e3fc7306ea275f7ced46798f6d9c884bf4eed1fd0c06f86371dfda8

  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 July 29, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 9595, last updated July 29, 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.