Bureau of Reclamation Transparency Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1107.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1107, Bureau of Reclamation Transparency Act” on October 20, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on October 8, 2015”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 20, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/50914

  CBO publication date

  October 20, 2015

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1107, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1107

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  807bb0bb78fb563481f569d0235156b91e3e1a4af4956f6875895869f3af5350

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 114-366 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on December 3, 2015.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported December 3, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/366

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1107, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1107

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  807bb0bb78fb563481f569d0235156b91e3e1a4af4956f6875895869f3af5350

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GOSAR, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 33, February 26, 2015, Page H1371):
  This legislation is constitutionally appropriate pursuant to Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 (the Spending Clause). The Supreme Court, in South Dakota v. Dole (1987), reasoned that conditions and limitations on funds were consittuional and within the power of Congress under the Spending Clause. Article 1 Section 8 Clause 3 (Commerce Clause) If the matter in quetion is not a purely local matter (intra-state) or if it has an impact on inter-state commerce, it falls within Congress' power to ``regulate commerce amng the severl states.'' Article 1 Section 8 Clause 18 (the Necessary and Proper Clause) which grants Congress the power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for…
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 26, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  851 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1107, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1107

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  807bb0bb78fb563481f569d0235156b91e3e1a4af4956f6875895869f3af5350

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