Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 889.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 889, Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act” on March 31, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on March 24, 2015”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 31, 2015 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/50072

  CBO publication date

  March 31, 2015

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 889, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/889

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  71cac831837e28834b2b7457d4ce83ae1530384a20c92fbaa404fa23487517c4

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 114-141 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on June 8, 2015.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported June 8, 2015 ↗

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  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/141

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 889, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/889

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  71cac831837e28834b2b7457d4ce83ae1530384a20c92fbaa404fa23487517c4

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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. CHABOT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 23, February 11, 2015, Page H983):
  The constitutional authority on which this legislation is based is found in article I, section 8, clause 9; article III, section 1, clause 1; and article III, section 2, clause 2, of the Constitution, which grant Congress authority over federal courts.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 11, 2015 ↗

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  Statement length

  252 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 889, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/889

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  71cac831837e28834b2b7457d4ce83ae1530384a20c92fbaa404fa23487517c4

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