To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Securing the Cities Initiative of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2611.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2611, A bill to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Securing the Cities Initiative of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes” on December 10, 2009. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on November 20, 2009</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, December 10, 2009 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/41857

  CBO publication date

  December 10, 2009

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2611, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/2611

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 26, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e3c01f17c2669625f4f5e42931b7348deedc613cde5977df9b57814fe98cf55a

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2611, A bill to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Securing the Cities Initiative of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes” on December 10, 2009. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on November 20, 2009”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, December 10, 2009 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/41857

  CBO publication date

  December 10, 2009

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2611, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/2611

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 26, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e3c01f17c2669625f4f5e42931b7348deedc613cde5977df9b57814fe98cf55a

• 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. 111-389 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Homeland Security Committee on January 12, 2010.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported January 12, 2010 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/111/HRPT/389

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2611, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/2611

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 26, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e3c01f17c2669625f4f5e42931b7348deedc613cde5977df9b57814fe98cf55a

  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 H.R. 2611, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 26, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.