To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic, Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, as the "Sergeant First Class Floyd E. Lake Department of Veterans Affairs Community-Based Outpatient Clinic".

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9871.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. PLASKETT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 120, July 22, 2026, Page H5178):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 22, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  54 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9871, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/9871

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 24, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f7ea744cbe8dbec87bab1ec851db6d3475dfd402e49a4f96b2a62ca86c0d72ac

  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 September 24, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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