Trafficking Prevention in Foreign Affairs Contracting Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 400.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 400, Trafficking Prevention in Foreign Affairs Contracting Act” on March 6, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on February 27, 2014”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 6, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/49991

  CBO publication date

  March 6, 2015

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 400, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/400

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  fe237c35cdea91f9f6ecd50e5192e42755aabe8a00073a7673042b0163040feb

• 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. ROYCE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 8, January 16, 2015, Page H412):
  Article I, section 8 of the Constitution of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 16, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  62 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 400, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/400

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  fe237c35cdea91f9f6ecd50e5192e42755aabe8a00073a7673042b0163040feb

  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. 400, 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.