A bill to authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of Congress to Pope John Paul II in recognition of his outstanding and enduring contributions to humanity, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 2453.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 2453, A bill to authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of Congress to Pope John Paul II in recognition of his outstanding and enduring contributions to humanity, and for other purposes” on July 21, 2000. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on July 13, 2000”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 21, 2000 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/12604

  CBO publication date

  July 21, 2000

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 2453, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/s/2453

  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: S. Rept. 106-356 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee on July 24, 2000.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported July 24, 2000 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/106/SRPT/356

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 2453, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/s/2453

  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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