House bill · 107th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedMar 14, 2002
- Committee actionApr 25, 2002
- Passed HouseJul 22, 2002 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 23, 2002 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3969.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3969, Freedom Promotion Act of 2002” on May 14, 2002. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on International Relations on April 25, 2002</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 14, 2002 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13665
- CBO publication date
- May 14, 2002
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3969, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/3969
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
48c91f9e7c5b51f7a084fd7a8452f73feeda79ea888b488ca80049af0cf294b9
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3969, Freedom Promotion Act of 2002” on May 14, 2002. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on International Relations on April 25, 2002”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 14, 2002 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13665
- CBO publication date
- May 14, 2002
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3969, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/3969
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
48c91f9e7c5b51f7a084fd7a8452f73feeda79ea888b488ca80049af0cf294b9
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. 107-493 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Foreign Affairs Committee on June 5, 2002.Source: Congress.gov, reported June 5, 2002 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/107/HRPT/493
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3969, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/3969
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
48c91f9e7c5b51f7a084fd7a8452f73feeda79ea888b488ca80049af0cf294b9
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. 3969, 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
1 cosponsor — 1 Democrat
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 107th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Henry Hyde.
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- H.R. 3348 (107th) To designate the National Foreign Affairs Training Center as the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center.
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- H.R. 2069 (107th) United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2002
- H.R. 3994 (107th) Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002
- H.R. 2602 (107th) To extend the Export Administration Act until November 20, 2001.
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.