Repeal of Obamacare Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6079.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “Letter to the Honorable John Boehner providing an estimate for H.R. 6079, the Repeal of Obamacare Act” on July 24, 2012. CBO’s description reads “CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation have estimated the direct spending and revenue effects of H.R. 6079, the Repeal of Obamacare Act, as passed by the House of Representatives on July 11, 2012”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 24, 2012 ↗

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/43471

  CBO publication date

  July 24, 2012

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6079, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/6079

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  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. CANTOR, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H4685):
  In National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, the Supreme Court rejected the constitutional basis offered by proponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the interstate commerce clause found in Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution. Having eliminated the requirement that all Americans buy insurance, the Supreme Court recast the law's penalty for not buying insurance as a tax, which Americans would pay in lieu of purchasing insurance, and five Justices upheld this tax under the taxing power of Congress, found in Article I, Section 8, Clause 1. With the individual requirement to buy insurance having been found unconstitutional, and, with the…
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated September 8, 2026 ↗

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  Statement length

  2,652 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6079, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/6079

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ba0480ae3e5590190fa714e1759e7268ab91f87e076098f7df77bb4317f30f5d

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

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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