Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4053.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4053, Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012” on October 11, 2012. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on September 20, 2012”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 11, 2012 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/43664

  CBO publication date

  October 11, 2012

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4053, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/4053

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  82f3eee9b6168a43bc9500de8756e4089383beb46182c4626661ec0cca368d19

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 112-698 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on November 30, 2012.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported November 30, 2012 ↗

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  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/112/HRPT/698

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4053, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/4053

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. TOWNS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H902):
  This Bill is enacted pursuant to Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, known as the ``Commerce Clause.'' This provision grants Congress the broad power to ``regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.''\1\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ Please note, pursuant to Article I, section 8, Congress has the power ``to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer…
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated December 5, 2025 ↗

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  Statement length

  750 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4053, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/4053

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  82f3eee9b6168a43bc9500de8756e4089383beb46182c4626661ec0cca368d19

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