Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1423.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1423, Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act” on August 27, 2013. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on July 24, 2013”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 27, 2013 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/44529

  CBO publication date

  August 27, 2013

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1423, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/1423

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b26ad4fc1b1932f8ab5d858c49073d06fbbbb63043c83fef85c00d26c74f9eb9

• 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. 113-355 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on February 21, 2014.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported February 21, 2014 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/113/HRPT/355

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1423, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/1423

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b26ad4fc1b1932f8ab5d858c49073d06fbbbb63043c83fef85c00d26c74f9eb9

  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. LANKFORD, as printed in the Congressional Record (Pages H1858-H1859):
  Article 1, Section 9--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 April 7, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  241 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1423, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/1423

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b26ad4fc1b1932f8ab5d858c49073d06fbbbb63043c83fef85c00d26c74f9eb9

  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. 1423, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 23, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.