Federal Aviation Administration Veteran Transition Improvement Act of 2016

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5957.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5957, Federal Aviation Administration Veteran Transition Improvement Act of 2016” on September 20, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on September 14, 2016”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 20, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52035

  CBO publication date

  September 20, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5957, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5957

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  56b36711038b9d2bdb55f36f59bb7884a62a253712fbc4ea45f82021eb0ba804

• 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. 114-771 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Transportation and Infrastructure 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/771

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5957, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5957

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  56b36711038b9d2bdb55f36f59bb7884a62a253712fbc4ea45f82021eb0ba804

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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. LARSEN of Washington, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 135, September 8, 2016, Page H5224):
  As described in Article 1, Section 1 ``all legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 8, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  109 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5957, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5957

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  56b36711038b9d2bdb55f36f59bb7884a62a253712fbc4ea45f82021eb0ba804

  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. 5957, last updated December 5, 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.