Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act, 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3401.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3401, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act, 2019” on June 25, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As posted on the website of the House Committee on Rules”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 25, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55391

  CBO publication date

  June 25, 2019

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3401, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3401

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6437ac7f52fdddf62b91d0922e4e02a748440489c4f0a6e2909a753bb234ab54

• 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 Mrs. LOWEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 105, June 21, 2019, Page H5037):
  The principal constitutional authority for this legislation is clause 7 of section 9 of article I of the Constitution of the United States (the appropriation power), which states: ``No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law. . . .'' In addition, clause 1 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution (the spending power) provides: ``The Congress shall have the Power . . . to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States . . .'' Together, these specific constitutional provisions establish the congressional power of the purse, granting Congress the authority to appropriate funds, to determine their…
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 21, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  800 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3401, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3401

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6437ac7f52fdddf62b91d0922e4e02a748440489c4f0a6e2909a753bb234ab54

  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 September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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