Vet Connect Act of 2016

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5162.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5162, Vet Connect Act of 2016” on September 23, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on September 21, 2016”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 23, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52048

  CBO publication date

  September 23, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5162, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5162

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a8b1490132870ff9f8b6bcb1a7603ba1355b06af0c5b17c5f9704c902d72a9eb

• 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. O'ROURKE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 67, April 29, 2016, Page H2151):
  Clause 3 of Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 29, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  75 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5162, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5162

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a8b1490132870ff9f8b6bcb1a7603ba1355b06af0c5b17c5f9704c902d72a9eb

  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 April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5162, last updated April 7, 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.