An original bill to permanently authorize certain provisions of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act of 2001, to reauthorize a provision of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, to clarify certain definitions in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, to provide additionaI investigative tools necessary to protect the national security, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1266.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1266, USA PATRIOT and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2005” on July 18, 2005. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on June 16, 2005</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 18, 2005 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/16989

  CBO publication date

  July 18, 2005

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1266, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/1266

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d469933721ada3b5866ed2a491256fdd7ef7b77eaf8f9930032194fc8ac0cede

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1266, USA PATRIOT and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2005” on July 18, 2005. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on June 16, 2005”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 18, 2005 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/16989

  CBO publication date

  July 18, 2005

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1266, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/1266

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d469933721ada3b5866ed2a491256fdd7ef7b77eaf8f9930032194fc8ac0cede

• 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: S. Rept. 109-85 ↗.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/109/SRPT/85

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1266, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/1266

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d469933721ada3b5866ed2a491256fdd7ef7b77eaf8f9930032194fc8ac0cede

  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.

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