House bill · 107th Congress · Public Law 107-56
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001
Became law on Oct 26, 2001.
Sponsor: Rep. F. Sensenbrenner R-WIWhere it went
- IntroducedOct 23, 2001
- Committee actionskipped
- Passed HouseOct 24, 2001 · 357–66
- Passed SenateOct 25, 2001 · 98–1
- To the PresidentOct 25, 2001
- Became lawOct 26, 2001
Latest action: Oct 26, 2001 — Became Public Law No: 107-56.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3162.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3162, Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act of 2001” on November 20, 2001. CBO’s description reads “<p>Pay-as-you-go estimate for the bill as cleared by the Congress and signed by the President on October 26, 2001</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 20, 2001 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13407
- CBO publication date
- November 20, 2001
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3162, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/3162
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3162, Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act of 2001” on November 20, 2001. CBO’s description reads “Pay-as-you-go estimate for the bill as cleared by the Congress and signed by the President on October 26, 2001”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 20, 2001 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13407
- CBO publication date
- November 20, 2001
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3162, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/3162
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
7fd0b69b6e3735ea1b6aeb9fa84aaa2314ffbae28c8e406c599b1f7c0060d1f3
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 noteH.R. 3162, the USA PATRIOT Act, incorporated provisions of two earlier anti-terrorism bills: H.R. 2975, which passed the House on 10/12/2001; and S. 1510, which passed the Senate on 10/11/2001. Provisions of H.R. 3004, the Financial Anti-Terrorism Act, were incorporated as Title III in H.R. 3162.Source: Congress.gov, record updated July 21, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- notes
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3162, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/3162
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
7fd0b69b6e3735ea1b6aeb9fa84aaa2314ffbae28c8e406c599b1f7c0060d1f3
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of July 21, 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
1 cosponsor — 1 Republican
0 of 1 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
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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.