Religious Workers Act of 1997

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1198.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1198, An act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide permanent authority for entry into the United States of certain religious workers” on October 3, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Pay-as-you-go estimate for the bill as passed by the Congress on October 1, 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/10426

  CBO publication date

  October 3, 1997

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1198, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/1198

  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 S. 1198, 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.