To impose a ban on the payment of bonuses to employees of the Internal Revenue Service until the Secretary of the Treasury develops and implements a comprehensive customer service strategy.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4890.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4890, a bill to impose a ban on the payment of bonuses to employees of the Internal Revenue Service until the Secretary of the Treasury develops and implements a comprehensive customer service strategy” on April 19, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on April 13, 2015”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 19, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51480

  CBO publication date

  April 19, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4890, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4890

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a13d66f7e78aae046b0c4a0e7bd2d5a30b3de161c976ca85ecc25652e9d8e254

• 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.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 114-501 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Ways and Means Committee on April 18, 2016.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported April 18, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/501

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4890, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4890

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a13d66f7e78aae046b0c4a0e7bd2d5a30b3de161c976ca85ecc25652e9d8e254

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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. MEEHAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 54, April 11, 2016, Page H1599):
  Clause 1 and clause 18 of Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 11, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  81 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4890, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4890

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a13d66f7e78aae046b0c4a0e7bd2d5a30b3de161c976ca85ecc25652e9d8e254

  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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