Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2017

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 984.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 984, Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2017” on September 26, 2017. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on September 13, 2017”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 26, 2017 ↗

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53149

  CBO publication date

  September 26, 2017

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 984, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/984

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 10, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f144ef9523265b93d0a1220544c5c3e7d1cfe59e8e1a331bf411a003b3693aa6

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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. WITTMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 21, February 7, 2017, Page H1086):
  The bill is enacted pursuant to Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, which provides Congress with the power to regulate commerces and relations between the United States and Indian Tribes, and to pass all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution of the foregoing powers, as well as all other power vested by the Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 7, 2017 ↗

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  Statement length

  357 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 984, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/984

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 10, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f144ef9523265b93d0a1220544c5c3e7d1cfe59e8e1a331bf411a003b3693aa6

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of December 10, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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