U.S. Customs and Border Protection Rural and Remote Hiring and Retention Strategy Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1598.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1598, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Rural and Remote Hiring and Retention Strategy Act of 2019” on April 30, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on March 28, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 30, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55182

  CBO publication date

  April 30, 2019

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1598, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/1598

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d28305fbc8cb800c8bc3432d782e227999cfab4ba245a24e71f6308e35a856d7

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 116-22 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Homeland Security Committee on March 28, 2019.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported March 28, 2019 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/116/HRPT/22

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1598, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/1598

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d28305fbc8cb800c8bc3432d782e227999cfab4ba245a24e71f6308e35a856d7

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. TORRES SMALL of New Mexico, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 41, March 7, 2019, Page H2585):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 7, 2019 ↗

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  Statement length

  45 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1598, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/1598

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d28305fbc8cb800c8bc3432d782e227999cfab4ba245a24e71f6308e35a856d7

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