Senate bill · 106th Congress · Did not become law
A bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to reauthorize the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 23, 1999
- Committee actionMar 23, 1999
- Passed SenateNov 3, 1999 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 4, 1999 — Held at the desk.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 688.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 688, A bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to reauthorize the Overseas Private Investment Corporation” on April 7, 1999. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on March 23, 1999”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 7, 1999 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11471
- CBO publication date
- April 7, 1999
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 688, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/s/688
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 14, 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 January 14, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
No cosponsors.
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 28, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.