FLIGHT R&D Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4489.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4489, FLIGHT R&D Act” on February 23, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on February 11, 2016”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 23, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51280

  CBO publication date

  February 23, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4489, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4489

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  198c706972d50949c24d8af35562df0a36bbd9d9a095f06ffae4d5524291585f

• 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. KNIGHT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 22, February 8, 2016, Page H595):
  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 of Officer thereof.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 8, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  295 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4489, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4489

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  198c706972d50949c24d8af35562df0a36bbd9d9a095f06ffae4d5524291585f

  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 August 12, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4489, last updated August 12, 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.