Social Media Use in Clearance Investigations Act of 2017

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3737.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3737, Social Media Use in Clearance Investigations Act of 2017” on September 26, 2017. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on September 13, 2017”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 26, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53144

  CBO publication date

  September 26, 2017

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3737, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3737

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 115-512 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on January 11, 2018.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported January 11, 2018 ↗

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  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/115/HRPT/512

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3737, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3737

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f14341eb7dab5b07b07d82b0d31af1648730a1bfdd0bd11f05606d2b6da9db83

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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. DeSANTIS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 147, September 12, 2017, Page H7313):
  Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 (The President . . . ``shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, who Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.''), Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 (``The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposes, and Excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common…
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 12, 2017 ↗

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  Statement length

  1,063 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3737, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3737

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f14341eb7dab5b07b07d82b0d31af1648730a1bfdd0bd11f05606d2b6da9db83

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