To authorize the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to construct a greenhouse facility at its museum support facility in Suitland, Maryland, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5492.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5492, A bill to authorize the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to construct a greenhouse facility at its museum support facility in Suitland, Maryland, and for other purposes” on March 3, 2008. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on February 28, 2008</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 3, 2008 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/19517

  CBO publication date

  March 3, 2008

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5492, 110th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/5492

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0d078d809de614bf6ffbabe5d0d05996dcdaef7f0f283179be3f5afa8cef1591

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5492, A bill to authorize the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to construct a greenhouse facility at its museum support facility in Suitland, Maryland, and for other purposes” on March 3, 2008. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on February 28, 2008”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 3, 2008 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/19517

  CBO publication date

  March 3, 2008

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5492, 110th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/5492

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0d078d809de614bf6ffbabe5d0d05996dcdaef7f0f283179be3f5afa8cef1591

• 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. 110-545 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on March 10, 2008.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported March 10, 2008 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/110/HRPT/545

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5492, 110th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/5492

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0d078d809de614bf6ffbabe5d0d05996dcdaef7f0f283179be3f5afa8cef1591

  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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