EPS Improvement Act of 2016

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4444.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4444, EPS Improvement Act of 2016” on February 29, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on February 25, 2016”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 29, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51321

  CBO publication date

  February 29, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4444, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4444

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  dc4b6a3cb9e57442e937ebca9bd8b30a13b152720b471bbb2690a1836ee649cf

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. ELLMERS of North Carolina, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 20, February 3, 2016, Page H567):
  The Commerce Clause--Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3: ``To regulate Commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 3, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  157 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4444, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4444

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  dc4b6a3cb9e57442e937ebca9bd8b30a13b152720b471bbb2690a1836ee649cf

  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 September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4444, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.