To prohibit the use of United States funds to provide for the participation of certain Chinese officials in international conferences, programs, and activities and to provide that certain Chinese officials shall be ineligible to receive visas and excluded from admission to the United States.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 967.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 967, A bill to prohibit the use of United States funds to provide for the participation of certain Chinese officials in international conferences...” on October 3, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on International Relations on September 30, 1997”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 3, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10430

  CBO publication date

  October 3, 1997

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 967, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/967

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  21af436feff025d37d659dbedbc6c76251ac06f71c55ac0f7af7dcbc0810a6b7

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-309 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Foreign Affairs Committee on October 7, 1997.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported October 7, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/309

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 967, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/967

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  21af436feff025d37d659dbedbc6c76251ac06f71c55ac0f7af7dcbc0810a6b7

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