Expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States should manage its public domain National Forests to maximize the reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere among many other objectives and that the United States should serve as an example and as a world leader in actively managing its public domain national forests in a manner that substantially reduces the amount of carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.Con.Res. 151.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H. Con. Res. 151, Expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States should manage its forests to maximize the reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere among many other objectives...” on October 7, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on October 1, 1997”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 7, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10444

  CBO publication date

  October 7, 1997

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.Con.Res. 151, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hconres/151

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3926b3eadbbf90a0c6e07028f007439638ceafb0c947ca1b3e1b2c757641820f

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-330 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on October 21, 1997.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported October 21, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/330

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.Con.Res. 151, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hconres/151

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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