To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require identification and description on the website of the Federal Communications Commission of items to be decided on authority delegated by the Commission.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2593.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2593, a bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require identification and description on the website of the Federal Communications Commission of items to be decided on authority delegated 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/51633

  CBO publication date

  May 27, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2593, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/2593

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6dcf30ec205318cf427f9c41ea165feb87bbe33b6f118ac578fe79c8fba1d477

• 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. LATTA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 86, June 1, 2015, Page H3642):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: Congress shall have the Power . . . ``to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 1, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  172 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2593, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/2593

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6dcf30ec205318cf427f9c41ea165feb87bbe33b6f118ac578fe79c8fba1d477

  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. 2593, 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.