Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, to improve and streamline disaster assistance for Hurricane Sandy, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 152.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 152, Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013” on January 17, 2013. CBO’s description reads “H.R. 152, Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 17, 2013 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/43854

  CBO publication date

  January 17, 2013

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 152, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/152

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  5da6ad287543f4b8a57f1af0f6799392624198e0dfdb4b9cd93167b2dea9f183

• 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.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H53):
  The principal constitutional authority for this legislation is clause 7 of section 9 of article I of the Constitution of the United States (the appropriation power), which states: ``No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law . . . .'' In addition, clause 1 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution (the spending power) provides: ``The Congress shall have the Power . . . to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States. . . .'' Together, these specific constitutional provisions establish the congressional power of the purse, granting Congress the authority to appropriate funds, to determine their…
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated September 8, 2026 ↗

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  Statement length

  802 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 152, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/152

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  5da6ad287543f4b8a57f1af0f6799392624198e0dfdb4b9cd93167b2dea9f183

  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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