Granting the consent and approval of Congress for the State of Maryland, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the District of Columbia to amend the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Regulation Compact.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 96.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.J. Res. 96, A joint resolution granting consent and approval of Congress for the state of Maryland, the commonwealth of Virginia, and the District of Columbia to amend the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Regulation Compact” on October 30, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on October 29, 1997”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 30, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10528

  CBO publication date

  October 30, 1997

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 96, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hjres/96

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9b9d3acdce822386a3c729afd06dab850b30d204999aea2f36e3fbfa85039638

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-396 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on November 8, 1997.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported November 8, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/396

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 96, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hjres/96

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9b9d3acdce822386a3c729afd06dab850b30d204999aea2f36e3fbfa85039638

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From the Congress.gov bill record for H.J.Res. 96, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 28, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.