TABS Act of 2016

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1486.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1486, Taking Account of Bureaucrats’ Spending Act of 2016” on April 20, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on April 13, 2016”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 20, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51485

  CBO publication date

  April 20, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1486, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1486

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c636480ce559ee0149cb2e1d94595832b40d116e982cc598d6be48ae6c4345bc

• 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. 114-538 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Financial Services Committee on May 6, 2016.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported May 6, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/538

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1486, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1486

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c636480ce559ee0149cb2e1d94595832b40d116e982cc598d6be48ae6c4345bc

  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. BARR, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 47, March 19, 2015, Page H1805):
  Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 19, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  249 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1486, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1486

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c636480ce559ee0149cb2e1d94595832b40d116e982cc598d6be48ae6c4345bc

  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. 1486, 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.