Fair Investment Opportunities for Professional Experts Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2187.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2187, a bill to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise its regulations regarding the qualifications of natural persons as accredited investors” on January 19, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on December 9, 2015”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 19, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51151

  CBO publication date

  January 19, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2187, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/2187

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a262dc48845e4ceb77ba797c004bdc732b67b8278d24b47519d83d910cf98714

• 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. 114-406 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Financial Services Committee on February 1, 2016.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported February 1, 2016 ↗

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  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/406

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2187, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/2187

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a262dc48845e4ceb77ba797c004bdc732b67b8278d24b47519d83d910cf98714

  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. SCHWEIKERT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 64, April 30, 2015, Page H2772):
  Article 1, Section 8: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 30, 2015 ↗

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  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  282 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2187, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/2187

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a262dc48845e4ceb77ba797c004bdc732b67b8278d24b47519d83d910cf98714

  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. 2187, 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.