To redesignate the Ellis Island Library on the third floor of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, located on Ellis Island in New York Harbor, as the "Bob Hope Memorial Library".

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 759.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 759, An act to redesignate the Ellis Island Library on the third floor of the ellis Island Immigration Museum, located on Ellis Island in New York Harbor, as the "Bob Hope Memorial Library"” on February 26, 2008. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on January 30, 2008</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 26, 2008 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/19500

  CBO publication date

  February 26, 2008

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 759, 110th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/759

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  db2a593197dfa73e38567342bbae113e9fa9cfcbe200d42b62b5bf1eedf24b2c

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 759, An act to redesignate the Ellis Island Library on the third floor of the ellis Island Immigration Museum, located on Ellis Island in New York Harbor, as the "Bob Hope Memorial Library"” on February 26, 2008. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on January 30, 2008”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 26, 2008 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/19500

  CBO publication date

  February 26, 2008

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 759, 110th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/759

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  db2a593197dfa73e38567342bbae113e9fa9cfcbe200d42b62b5bf1eedf24b2c

• 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. 110-313 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Energy and Natural Resources 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/SRPT/313

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 759, 110th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/759

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  db2a593197dfa73e38567342bbae113e9fa9cfcbe200d42b62b5bf1eedf24b2c

  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.

• Congress.gov noteFor further action, see S.2739, which became Public Law 110-229 on 5/8/2008.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated September 8, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  notes

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 759, 110th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/759

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  db2a593197dfa73e38567342bbae113e9fa9cfcbe200d42b62b5bf1eedf24b2c

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