Columbia Space Shuttle Memorial Study Act of 2005

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 242.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 242, Columbia Space Shuttle Memorial Study Act of 2005” on October 6, 2005. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on September 28, 2005</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 6, 2005 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17261

  CBO publication date

  October 6, 2005

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 242, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/242

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b1fe61ca885b6904da84d26ae1f6bafd7510d1224c5569d13798cb761c0536e1

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 242, Columbia Space Shuttle Memorial Study Act of 2005” on October 6, 2005. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on September 28, 2005”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 6, 2005 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17261

  CBO publication date

  October 6, 2005

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 242, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/242

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b1fe61ca885b6904da84d26ae1f6bafd7510d1224c5569d13798cb761c0536e1

• 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. 109-145 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Energy and Natural Resources Committee on October 19, 2005.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported October 19, 2005 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/109/SRPT/145

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 242, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/242

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b1fe61ca885b6904da84d26ae1f6bafd7510d1224c5569d13798cb761c0536e1

  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 S. 242, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.