Due Process Restoration Act of 2015

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3798.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3798, Due Process Restoration Act of 2015” on June 28, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on March 2, 2016”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 28, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51734

  CBO publication date

  June 28, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3798, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3798

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 114-697 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Financial Services Committee on July 21, 2016.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported July 21, 2016 ↗

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  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/697

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3798, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3798

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GARRETT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 155, October 22, 2015, Page H7138):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 (The Congress shall have Power ``To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States and within the Indian Tribes'') and Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 (The Congress shall have Power ``to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof''). Additional authority derives from Article III, Section 1 (``The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.…
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 22, 2015 ↗

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  Statement length

  1,032 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3798, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3798

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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