Authorizing the Speaker to appear as amicus curiae on behalf of the House of Representatives in the matter of United States, et al. v. Texas, et al., No. 15-674.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.Res. 639.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 114-457 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Rules Committee on March 16, 2016.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported March 16, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/457

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.Res. 639, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hres/639

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b06dd39e9fbf5453fd92f225e37cece7f6373135a97d98f220a560aa3a50ccc8

  A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.Res. 639, 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.