District of Columbia Flood Prevention Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2185.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2185, District of Columbia Flood Prevention Act of 2019” on October 11, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on September 25, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 11, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55720

  CBO publication date

  October 11, 2019

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2185, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/2185

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3fbf6c10e1832ea2ead4aa0fe51510cbd83dfd47291cdcc51cf165000b727c04

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 116-321 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on December 4, 2019.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported December 4, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/116/HRPT/321

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2185, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/2185

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3fbf6c10e1832ea2ead4aa0fe51510cbd83dfd47291cdcc51cf165000b727c04

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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. NORTON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 61, April 9, 2019, Page H3219):
  clause18 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 9, 2019 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  55 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2185, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/2185

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3fbf6c10e1832ea2ead4aa0fe51510cbd83dfd47291cdcc51cf165000b727c04

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

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2185, last updated December 6, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 20, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.