To authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in recognition of his outstanding and enduring contributions toward religious understanding and peace, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2248.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2248, An act to authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew” on September 29, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Pay-as-you-go estimate for the bill as passed by the Congress on September 24, 1997”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 29, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10402

  CBO publication date

  September 29, 1997

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2248, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/2248

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 13, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2ab3ca992ca07809fbf52ead18b6cbcf1505197229d83d55d859b62d48cb14e9

• 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.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of May 13, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2248, last updated May 13, 2024. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 28, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.