Ranch A Consolidation and Management Improvement Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1684.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1684, Ranch A Consolidation and Management Improvement Act” on September 9, 2013. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on July 31, 2013”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 9, 2013 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/44545

  CBO publication date

  September 9, 2013

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1684, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/1684

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 113-198 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on September 10, 2013.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 10, 2013 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/113/HRPT/198

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1684, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/1684

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 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 Mrs. LUMMIS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H2248):
  Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2: ``The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state.''
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated September 8, 2026 ↗

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  Statement length

  330 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1684, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/1684

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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