Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1295.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1295, IRS Bureaucracy Reduction and Judicial Review 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/50080

  CBO publication date

  April 3, 2015

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1295, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1295

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 4, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  51c3c8fd5c7f971f66a36dad15f03ed0be7b58e5992b6d5e98f864b5b7634dd7

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1295, Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015” on June 11, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As posted on the Rules Committee website on June 9, 2015”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 11, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/50291

  CBO publication date

  June 11, 2015

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1295, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1295

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 4, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  51c3c8fd5c7f971f66a36dad15f03ed0be7b58e5992b6d5e98f864b5b7634dd7

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1295, Trade Preference Extension Act of 2015” on June 22, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As printed in the Congressional Record on June 18, 2015”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 22, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/50336

  CBO publication date

  June 22, 2015

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1295, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1295

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 4, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  51c3c8fd5c7f971f66a36dad15f03ed0be7b58e5992b6d5e98f864b5b7634dd7

• 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. 114-71 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Ways and Means Committee on April 14, 2015.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported April 14, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/71

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1295, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1295

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 4, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  51c3c8fd5c7f971f66a36dad15f03ed0be7b58e5992b6d5e98f864b5b7634dd7

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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. HOLDING, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 37, March 4, 2015, Page H1616):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18, which states ``The Congress shall have Power To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 4, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  311 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1295, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1295

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 4, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  51c3c8fd5c7f971f66a36dad15f03ed0be7b58e5992b6d5e98f864b5b7634dd7

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

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