Postal Service Financial Improvement Act of 2016

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5707.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5707, Postal Service Financial Improvement Act of 2016” on October 21, 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, October 21, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52130

  CBO publication date

  October 21, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5707, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5707

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c42a609a7b170a4497eadbc7d7babd2e95af218abb27613c47372132bffe5f1c

• 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. 114-859 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on December 8, 2016.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported December 8, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/859

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5707, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5707

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c42a609a7b170a4497eadbc7d7babd2e95af218abb27613c47372132bffe5f1c

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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. LYNCH, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 111, July 11, 2016, Page H4660):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 Article I, Section 8, Clause 18
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 11, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  62 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5707, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5707

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c42a609a7b170a4497eadbc7d7babd2e95af218abb27613c47372132bffe5f1c

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5707, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.