House bill · 107th Congress · Public Law 107-148
Radio Free Afghanistan Act
Became law on Mar 11, 2002.
Sponsor: Rep. Ed Royce R-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedOct 2, 2001
- Committee actionNov 1, 2001
- Passed HouseNov 7, 2001 · 405–2
- Passed SenateFeb 7, 2002 · by unanimous consent
- Resolving differencesFeb 12, 2002
- To the PresidentFeb 27, 2002
- Became lawMar 11, 2002
Latest action: Mar 11, 2002 — Became Public Law No: 107-148.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2998.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2998, Radio Free Afghanistan Act of 2001” on November 7, 2001. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on International Relations on November 1, 2001</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 7, 2001 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13377
- CBO publication date
- November 7, 2001
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2998, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/2998
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
22f7e80d209d950015cf8cf2347c8b14f4103d1337fcb95ff5c024c32607c5d8
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2998, Radio Free Afghanistan Act of 2001” on November 7, 2001. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on International Relations on November 1, 2001”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 7, 2001 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13377
- CBO publication date
- November 7, 2001
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2998, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/2998
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
22f7e80d209d950015cf8cf2347c8b14f4103d1337fcb95ff5c024c32607c5d8
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 H.R. 2998, 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.
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
57 cosponsors — 36 Republicans, 21 Democrats
21 of 57 cosponsors (37%) are from the other party.
Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Dick Armey (R-TX), Joe Baca (D-CA), Cass Ballenger (R-NC), Howard Berman (D-CA), Marion Berry (D-AR), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Bob Clement (D-TN), Christopher Cox (R-CA), Joseph Crowley (D-NY), Jo Ann Davis (R-VA), Peter Deutsch (D-FL), John Doolittle (R-CA), David Dreier (R-CA), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Phil English (R-PA), Harold Ford (D-TN), Elton Gallegly (R-CA), Paul Gillmor (R-OH), James Greenwood (R-PA), Gil Gutknecht (R-MN), Doc Hastings (R-WA), Joel Hefley (R-CO), Joseph Hoeffel (D-PA), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Mark Kennedy (R-MN), Brian Kerns (R-IN) and 27 more.
More from the sponsor
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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.