For the relief of the survivors of the 14 members of the Armed Forces and the one United States civilian Federal employee who were killed on April 14, 1994, when United States fighter aircraft mistakenly shot down 2 United States helicopters over Iraq.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 456.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 456, A bill for the relief of the survivors of the 14 members of the United States Armed Forces and the one United States civilian federal employee who were killed on April 14, 1994, when two U.S. helicopters were shot down over Iraq...” on July 23, 1999. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on July 20, 1999”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 23, 1999 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11737

  CBO publication date

  July 23, 1999

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 456, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/456

  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.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 106-270 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on July 29, 1999.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported July 29, 1999 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/106/HRPT/270

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 456, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/456

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8da4a5284d5d60605fbeb8a8b76752718a1fd8bf22f53d8ca6b4ca0886c695db

  A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 456, 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.