To designate the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands, as the "Lieutenant Colonel David C. Canegata III Department of Veterans Affairs Community-Based Outpatient Clinic".

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9872.

• 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. 9872, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/9872

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 24, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  58c03178d284a699de0d862dcff63d8c97cb6b47fb5ae6ea762f6f94e56da718

  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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