House bill · 110th Congress · Did not become law
Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2008
Sponsor: Rep. Brad Ellsworth D-INWhere it went
- IntroducedDec 19, 2007
- Committee actionMar 13, 2008
- Passed HouseApr 14, 2008 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 15, 2008 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4881.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4881, Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2008” on April 10, 2008. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on March 13, 2008</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 10, 2008 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/19617
- CBO publication date
- April 10, 2008
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4881, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/4881
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
fab8cec7537156ffc9f17c6a8448a499f6bde940c4d8cea9085d23f33d02c0f1
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4881, Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2008” on April 10, 2008. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on March 13, 2008”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 10, 2008 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/19617
- CBO publication date
- April 10, 2008
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4881, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/4881
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
fab8cec7537156ffc9f17c6a8448a499f6bde940c4d8cea9085d23f33d02c0f1
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. 110-578 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on April 10, 2008.Source: Congress.gov, reported April 10, 2008 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/110/HRPT/578
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4881, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/4881
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
fab8cec7537156ffc9f17c6a8448a499f6bde940c4d8cea9085d23f33d02c0f1
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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
0 of 1 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 27, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.