To clarify the availability of existing funds for political status education in the Territory of Guam, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3940.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3940, A bill to amend Public Law 96-597 to clarify the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to extend grants and other assistance to facilitate political status public education programs for the peoples of the non-self-governing” on November 24, 2009. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on November 18, 2009</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 24, 2009 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/41442

  CBO publication date

  November 24, 2009

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3940, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/3940

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  71f3b309f01ef6a5a9846e733a1a0980ecd3cc842a4807a4be6f792cf728b4a1

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3940, A bill to amend Public Law 96-597 to clarify the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to extend grants and other assistance to facilitate political status public education programs for the peoples of the non-self-governing” on November 24, 2009. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on November 18, 2009”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 24, 2009 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/41442

  CBO publication date

  November 24, 2009

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3940, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/3940

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  71f3b309f01ef6a5a9846e733a1a0980ecd3cc842a4807a4be6f792cf728b4a1

• 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. 111-357 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on December 7, 2009.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported December 7, 2009 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/111/HRPT/357

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3940, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/3940

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  71f3b309f01ef6a5a9846e733a1a0980ecd3cc842a4807a4be6f792cf728b4a1

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