Visa Waiver Pilot Program Reauthorization Act of 1997

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1178.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1178, An act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to modify and extend the visa waiver pilot program, and to provide for the collection of data with respect to the number of nonimmigrants who remain in the United States...” on April 7, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Pay-as-you-go estimate for the bill as cleared by the Congress on April 1, 1998”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 7, 1998 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10721

  CBO publication date

  April 7, 1998

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1178, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/1178

  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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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 S. 1178, 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.