To amend the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 to reauthorize the dairy business innovation initiatives.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 985.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. VAN ORDEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 24, February 5, 2025, Page H505):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 5, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  30 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 985, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/985

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 25, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a287c07585c7c8848ee0634d4d4141f923ce429b2c113b89601a4d835821604c

  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 March 25, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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