A bill to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel FOILCAT.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 2096.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 2096, A bill to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel FOILCAT” on August 3, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on July 9, 1998”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 3, 1998 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11064

  CBO publication date

  August 3, 1998

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 2096, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/2096

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  438cd5dd9a75da0e3b8abc80ea2b21ebcb3fb3f0c69ea81e8a9fc03a69c494f7

• 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.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: S. Rept. 105-316 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on September 9, 1998.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 9, 1998 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/SRPT/316

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 2096, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/2096

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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