District of Columbia Courts and Public Defender Service Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5037.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5037, District of Columbia Courts and Public Defender Service Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments Act” on September 27, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on July 12, 2016”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 27, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52054

  CBO publication date

  September 27, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5037, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5037

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 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. 114-764 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on September 20, 2016.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 20, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/764

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5037, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5037

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 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 Ms. NORTON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 62, April 21, 2016, Page H1924):
  clause 18 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 21, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  56 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5037, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5037

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0baf1d1869c5b5f3e69a8daffbf49ff86417e5b53d3296cd48a0f336437ff39a

  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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