HIRE Vets Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3286.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3286, Honoring Investments in Recruiting and Employing American Military Veterans Act of 2016” on July 29, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on May 18, 2016”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 29, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51839

  CBO publication date

  July 29, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3286, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3286

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e8b8b4ed887636f72f7cb04c4db998d7d1ae77b1c19330efa80fea42759525f2

• 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. 114-708 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Veterans' Affairs Committee on September 6, 2016.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 6, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/708

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3286, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3286

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e8b8b4ed887636f72f7cb04c4db998d7d1ae77b1c19330efa80fea42759525f2

  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. COOK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 121, July 29, 2015, Page H5770):
  Article 1, Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 29, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3286, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3286

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e8b8b4ed887636f72f7cb04c4db998d7d1ae77b1c19330efa80fea42759525f2

  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. 3286, 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.