Common Sense Savings Act of 2016

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4725.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4725, Common Sense Savings Act of 2016” on March 24, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on March 15, 2016”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 24, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51414

  CBO publication date

  March 24, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4725, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4725

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4244498feb13a151e2c2665363ab96a6dd46539b7ff56dd7f00ad304d322bba7

• 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. PITTS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 39, March 10, 2016, Page H1302):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 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, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 10, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  327 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4725, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4725

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4244498feb13a151e2c2665363ab96a6dd46539b7ff56dd7f00ad304d322bba7

  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. 4725, 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.