To direct the President to develop a strategy to obtain observer status for Taiwan in the International Criminal Police Organization, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1853.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1853, a bill to direct the President to develop a strategy to obtain observer status for Taiwan in the International Criminal Police Organization, and for other purposes” on June 10, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on May 21, 2015”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 10, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/50287

  CBO publication date

  June 10, 2015

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1853, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1853

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  11f6aa49340f09ce534f8e6f3e6dc2ac839eb0675997f4274c8eeb714416aeb3

• 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.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SALMON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 55, April 16, 2015, Page H2309):
  Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 16, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  62 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1853, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1853

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  11f6aa49340f09ce534f8e6f3e6dc2ac839eb0675997f4274c8eeb714416aeb3

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

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1853, last updated December 5, 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.