House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
Government Waste, Fraud, and Error Reduction Act of 1998
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJul 16, 1998
- Committee actionJul 23, 1998
- Passed HouseOct 14, 1998 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 15, 1998 — Received in the Senate.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4243.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4243, Government Waste, Fraud, and Error Reduction Act of 1998” on October 5, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight on July 23, 1998”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 5, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11210
- CBO publication date
- October 5, 1998
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4243, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/4243
- 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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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 April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4243, 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.
Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
4 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 2 Democrats
2 of 4 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
Paul Kanjorski (D-PA), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Pete Sessions (R-TX), John Sununu (R-NH).
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Steve Horn.
- H.R. 930 (105th) Travel and Transportation Reform Act of 1998
- H.R. 2977 (105th) Federal Advisory Committee Act Amendments of 1997
- H.R. 1962 (105th) Presidential and Executive Office Financial Accountability Act of 1997
- H.Res. 121 (105th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the March 30, 1997, terrorist grenade attack in Cambodia.
- H.R. 4857 (105th) Government Waste, Fraud, and Error Reduction Act of 1998
- H.R. 4244 (105th) Federal Procurement System Performance Measurement and Acquisition Workforce Training Act of 1998
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 29, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.