To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission to publish on the website of the Commission documents to be voted on by the Commission.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2592.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2592, a bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission to publish on the website of the Commission documents to be voted on by the Commission” on May 27, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on April 28, 2016”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 27, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51631

  CBO publication date

  May 27, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2592, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/2592

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f373b90ea9da1adf8a0023226e984d8f098ba963112ad23b0d85b217613f35ff

• 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. KINZINGER of Illinois, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 86, June 1, 2015, Page H3642):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 1, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  55 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2592, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/2592

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f373b90ea9da1adf8a0023226e984d8f098ba963112ad23b0d85b217613f35ff

  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 April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2592, 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.