A bill to ensure an open and deliberate process in Congress by providing that any future legislation to establish a new exemption to section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act) be stated explicitly within the text of the bill.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1181.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1181, A bill to ensure an open and deliberate process in Congress by providing that any future legislation to establish a new exemption to section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act) be” on June 20, 2005. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on June 13, 2005</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 20, 2005 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/16648

  CBO publication date

  June 20, 2005

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1181, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/1181

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  05a0fdb3aa866cc46361a260a0467accb5931eb553ba79dd947b1a8e9a387348

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1181, A bill to ensure an open and deliberate process in Congress by providing that any future legislation to establish a new exemption to section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act) be” on June 20, 2005. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on June 13, 2005”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 20, 2005 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/16648

  CBO publication date

  June 20, 2005

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1181, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/1181

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  05a0fdb3aa866cc46361a260a0467accb5931eb553ba79dd947b1a8e9a387348

• 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 August 10, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 1181, last updated August 10, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 27, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.