A bill to require the Secretary of State to offer rewards totaling up to $10,000,000 for information on the kidnapping and murder of James Foley and Steven Sotloff.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 2778.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 2778, an act to require the Secretary of State to offer rewards totaling up to $10,000,000 for information on the kidnapping and murder of James Foley and Steven Sotloff” on September 25, 2014. CBO’s description reads “As passed by the Senate on September 18, 2014”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 25, 2014 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/45751

  CBO publication date

  September 25, 2014

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 2778, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/s/2778

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 14, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of January 14, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 2778, last updated January 14, 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.