To add Ireland to the E-3 nonimmigrant visa program.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2877.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “CBO’s Estimate of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Effects of H.R. 2877, a bill to add Ireland to the E-3 nonimmigrant visa program” on March 9, 2020. CBO’s description reads “As Introduced in the House of Representatives on May 21, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 9, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56256

  CBO publication date

  March 9, 2020

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2877, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/2877

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  430b9c9a9a0b0b3552c0f5580bd8d4e04cddd87cfe8867ce52a07b61c4f81806

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Effects of H.R. 2877, a bill to add Ireland to the E-3 nonimmigrant visa program” on March 9, 2020. CBO’s description reads “As Introduced in the House of Representatives on May 21, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 9, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56256

  CBO publication date

  March 9, 2020

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2877, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/2877

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  430b9c9a9a0b0b3552c0f5580bd8d4e04cddd87cfe8867ce52a07b61c4f81806

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. NEAL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 85, May 21, 2019, Page H4065):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. CDonstitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 21, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  46 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2877, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/2877

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  430b9c9a9a0b0b3552c0f5580bd8d4e04cddd87cfe8867ce52a07b61c4f81806

  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 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2877, last updated December 5, 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.