To redesignate the Ellis Island Library on the third floor of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, located on Ellis Island in New York Harbor, as the "Bob Hope Memorial Library".

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 323.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 323, A bill to redesignate the Ellis Island Library on the third floor of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, located on Ellis Island in New York Harbor, as the "Bob Hope Memorial Library"” on November 8, 2005. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on October 19, 2005</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 8, 2005 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17457

  CBO publication date

  November 8, 2005

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 323, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/323

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d9bf851c248746216146b2e8ac375fe36d79ad837d2c1f095469cb40f3eaceee

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 323, A bill to redesignate the Ellis Island Library on the third floor of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, located on Ellis Island in New York Harbor, as the "Bob Hope Memorial Library"” on November 8, 2005. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on October 19, 2005”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 8, 2005 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17457

  CBO publication date

  November 8, 2005

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 323, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/323

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d9bf851c248746216146b2e8ac375fe36d79ad837d2c1f095469cb40f3eaceee

• 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. 109-284 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on November 10, 2005.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported November 10, 2005 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/109/HRPT/284

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 323, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/323

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d9bf851c248746216146b2e8ac375fe36d79ad837d2c1f095469cb40f3eaceee

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