IRS Email Transparency Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1152.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1152, IRS Email Transparency Act” on April 3, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on March 25, 2015”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 3, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/50079

  CBO publication date

  April 3, 2015

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1152, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1152

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2e6a3487f2e628bdf1531085ddd5b681b4847e506137158597fe938115f2d1c3

• 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.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 114-69 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Ways and Means Committee on April 13, 2015.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported April 13, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/69

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1152, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1152

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2e6a3487f2e628bdf1531085ddd5b681b4847e506137158597fe938115f2d1c3

  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.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MARCHANT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 34, February 27, 2015, Page H1500):
  Clauses 1 and 18 of Section 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 27, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  77 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1152, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1152

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2e6a3487f2e628bdf1531085ddd5b681b4847e506137158597fe938115f2d1c3

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1152, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.