To provide for the establishment of an inter-agency task force to review, modify, and update best practices for pain management and prescribing pain medication, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4641.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4641, a bill to provide for the establishment of an inter-agency task force to review, modify, and update best practices for pain management and prescribing pain medication, and for other purposes” on May 3, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on April 27, 2016”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 3, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51519

  CBO publication date

  May 3, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4641, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4641

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 21, 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. 114-536 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Energy and Commerce Committee on May 3, 2016.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported May 3, 2016 ↗

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  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/536

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4641, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4641

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 21, 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 Mrs. BROOKS of Indiana, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 31, February 26, 2016, Page H1000):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 3
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 26, 2016 ↗

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  30 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4641, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4641

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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  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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