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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.Res. 196.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 113-260 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on November 12, 2013.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported November 12, 2013 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/113/HRPT/260

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.Res. 196, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hres/196

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ae922c71920f32d513d5ab7ad1eabf3a9bb8d83b8a141052919e05575e9bf7c4

  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.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.Res. 196, 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.