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U.GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-159
COUNTERING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
EXTENSION ACT OF 2023
JULY 27, 2023.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GREEN of Tennessee, from the Committee on Homeland
Security, submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 3224]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Homeland Security, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3224) to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to ex-
tend the authorization of the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruc-
tion Office of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other
purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon
without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
Purpose and Sum m ary ............................................................................................ 1
Background and Need for Legislation ................................................................... 2
Hearings ................................................................................................................... 2
Com m ittee Consideration ........................................................................................ 3
C om m ittee V otes ...................................................................................................... 3
Com m ittee Oversight Findings .............................................................................. 3
C.B.O. Estimate, New Budget Authority, Entitlement Authority, and Tax
E xpenditures ....................................................................................................... 3
Federal M andates Statem ent ................................................................................. 4
Duplicative Federal Program s ............................................................................... 4
Statement of General Performance Goals and Objectives ................................... 4
Congressional Earmarks, Limited Tax Benefits, and Limited Tariff Benefits ... 4
Advisory Com m ittee Statem ent ............................................................................. 5
Applicability to Legislative Branch ....................................................................... 5
Section-by-Section Analysis of the Legislation ..................................................... 5
PURPOSE AND SUMMARY
H.R. 3224, The Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Exten-
sion Act of 2023, would extend the sunset clause on the Coun-
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