Elijah E. Cummings Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 135.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 135, Elijah E. Cummings Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Act of 2019” on November 18, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on November 6, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 18, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55863

  CBO publication date

  November 18, 2019

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 135, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/135

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: S. Rept. 116-176 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on December 16, 2019.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported December 16, 2019 ↗

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  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/116/SRPT/176

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 135, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/135

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 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. CUMMINGS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 1, January 3, 2019, Page H215):
  Article 1, Section 8: The Congress shall have Power to . . . provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2019 ↗

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  Statement length

  132 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 135, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/135

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a69625b428da1126b167b1b6a0ac9568e949ecb1c513b31da16ede01f2e79b83

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

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