Midnight Rules Relief Act of 2016

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5982.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5982, Midnight Rules Relief Act of 2016” on September 19, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on September 14, 2016”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 19, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52025

  CBO publication date

  September 19, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5982, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5982

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 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. 114-782 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on September 22, 2016.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 22, 2016 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/782

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5982, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5982

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 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 Mr. ISSA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 136, September 9, 2016, Page H5255):
  Article I, Section 1, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, in that the legislation concerns the exercise of legislative powers generally granted to Congress by that section, including the exercise of those powers when delegated by Congress to the Executive; Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 to 17, of the United States Constitution, in that the legislation concerns the exercise of specific legislative powers granted to Congress by those sections, including the exercise of those powers when delegated by Congress to the Executive; Article I, Section 8, clause 18 of the United States Constitution, in that the legislation exercises legislative power granted to Congress by that clause…
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 9, 2016 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  1,114 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5982, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5982

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7a545cd0d32a784f8734bfa53951b5c58f8903c32d0379d7009e92c36d879215

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