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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2146.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2146, DATA Act” on September 16, 2011. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on June 22, 2011”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 16, 2011 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/42577

  CBO publication date

  September 16, 2011

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2146, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/2146

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f94fdde49357165bbba1123ccca1cd746c4e2c691d058bc5596636964f068254

• 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. 112-260 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on October 25, 2011.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported October 25, 2011 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/112/HRPT/260

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2146, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/2146

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f94fdde49357165bbba1123ccca1cd746c4e2c691d058bc5596636964f068254

  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.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ISSA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H4075):
  Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7: ``No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated December 5, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  253 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2146, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/2146

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f94fdde49357165bbba1123ccca1cd746c4e2c691d058bc5596636964f068254

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2146, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 25, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.