To amend title 39, United States Code, to make cigarettes and certain other tobacco products nonmailable, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5912.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5912, A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, to make cigarettes and certain other tobacco products nonmailable, and for other purposes” on May 20, 2008. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on May 1, 2008</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 20, 2008 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/19798

  CBO publication date

  May 20, 2008

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5912, 110th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/5912

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e3c7bb4ed013c1a0a6dedf1cebb664b7e987f52b47ccc5327b2d0a2804bde74b

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5912, A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, to make cigarettes and certain other tobacco products nonmailable, and for other purposes” on May 20, 2008. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on May 1, 2008”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 20, 2008 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/19798

  CBO publication date

  May 20, 2008

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5912, 110th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/5912

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e3c7bb4ed013c1a0a6dedf1cebb664b7e987f52b47ccc5327b2d0a2804bde74b

• 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. 110-711 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on June 12, 2008.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported June 12, 2008 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/110/HRPT/711

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5912, 110th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/5912

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e3c7bb4ed013c1a0a6dedf1cebb664b7e987f52b47ccc5327b2d0a2804bde74b

  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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