Water and Agriculture Tax Reform Act of 2016

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4220.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4220, Water and Agriculture Tax Reform Act of 2016” on September 26, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on September 21, 2016”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 26, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52052

  CBO publication date

  September 26, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4220, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4220

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e3928a857ca9c711c2cfc04bb150ec226e40f0dd3962ae548b4ecac12b5dc3be

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 114-862 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Ways and Means Committee on December 8, 2016.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported December 8, 2016 ↗

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  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/862

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4220, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4220

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 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. BUCK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 179, December 10, 2015, Page H9271):
  Clause 1, Section 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution: ``The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts, and provide for the common Defense and General Welfare of the United States; but all Duties and Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 10, 2015 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  338 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4220, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4220

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e3928a857ca9c711c2cfc04bb150ec226e40f0dd3962ae548b4ecac12b5dc3be

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

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