Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2847.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2847, Jobs For Main Street Act” on January 4, 2010. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as passed by the House of Representatives on December 16, 2009</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 4, 2010 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/41883

  CBO publication date

  January 4, 2010

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2847, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/2847

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 26, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  00c4331f11783b81987a6aa99f41daab09648eeee4304b4e745b19348d9ebcb2

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2847, Jobs For Main Street Act” on January 4, 2010. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as passed by the House of Representatives on December 16, 2009”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 4, 2010 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/41883

  CBO publication date

  January 4, 2010

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2847, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/2847

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 26, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  00c4331f11783b81987a6aa99f41daab09648eeee4304b4e745b19348d9ebcb2

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2847, Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act” on February 18, 2010. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for Senate Amendment 3310, as introduced in the nature of a substitute for H.R. 2847 on February 11, 2010.</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 18, 2010 ↗

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  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/21202

  CBO publication date

  February 18, 2010

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2847, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/2847

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 26, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  00c4331f11783b81987a6aa99f41daab09648eeee4304b4e745b19348d9ebcb2

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2847, Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act” on February 18, 2010. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for Senate Amendment 3310, as introduced in the nature of a substitute for H.R. 2847 on February 11, 2010”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 18, 2010 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/21202

  CBO publication date

  February 18, 2010

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2847, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/2847

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 26, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  00c4331f11783b81987a6aa99f41daab09648eeee4304b4e745b19348d9ebcb2

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2847, Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act” on March 4, 2010. CBO’s description reads “<p>Pay-as-you-go estimate for the amendment to the Senate amendment to the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 2847</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 4, 2010 ↗

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  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/21247

  CBO publication date

  March 4, 2010

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2847, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/2847

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 26, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  00c4331f11783b81987a6aa99f41daab09648eeee4304b4e745b19348d9ebcb2

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2847, Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act” on March 4, 2010. CBO’s description reads “Pay-as-you-go estimate for the amendment to the Senate amendment to the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 2847”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 4, 2010 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/21247

  CBO publication date

  March 4, 2010

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2847, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/2847

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 26, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  00c4331f11783b81987a6aa99f41daab09648eeee4304b4e745b19348d9ebcb2

• 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 reportsCongress.gov lists 2 committee reports for this bill: H. Rept. 111-149 ↗; S. Rept. 111-34 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Appropriations Committee on June 25, 2009.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported June 25, 2009 ↗

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  committeeReports

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  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/111/HRPT/149
  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/111/SRPT/34

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2847, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/2847

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 26, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  00c4331f11783b81987a6aa99f41daab09648eeee4304b4e745b19348d9ebcb2

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• Congress.gov notePursuant to H.Res. 976, the House modified the Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Act, 2010, H.R. 2847, substituting the "Jobs for Main Street Act, 2010" as Division A of the Act and the "Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2009" as Division B. (Regular appropriations for FY2010 for activities funded in the C-J-S Appropriations Act were included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010; see Division B of P.L. 111-117.) The report of the House Rules Committee on H.Res. 976 (H.Rept. 111-380, p. 5) summarized the matter included in Division A of the Act concerning the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP); infrastructure, employment, and public investment programs; unemployment insurance; COBRA; small business loans; the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage; the child tax credit; surface transportation; and certain civil rights claims.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗

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  notes

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2847, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/2847

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 26, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  00c4331f11783b81987a6aa99f41daab09648eeee4304b4e745b19348d9ebcb2

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