Damon Paul Nelson and Matthew Young Pollard Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2018, 2019, and 2020

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3494.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3494, Damon Paul Nelson and Matthew Young Pollard Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2018, 2019, and 2020” on July 11, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on June 27, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 11, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55444

  CBO publication date

  July 11, 2019

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3494, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3494

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7007c6cd2d24d7de91c610259a5769c03f57383eb64652cab992ffabe423ecf5

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 116-151 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee on July 12, 2019.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported July 12, 2019 ↗

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  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/116/HRPT/151

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3494, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3494

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7007c6cd2d24d7de91c610259a5769c03f57383eb64652cab992ffabe423ecf5

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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. SCHIFF, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 108, June 26, 2019, Page H5201):
  The Declare War, Commerce, Necessary and Proper, and other clauses found at Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 26, 2019 ↗

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  Statement length

  121 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3494, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3494

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7007c6cd2d24d7de91c610259a5769c03f57383eb64652cab992ffabe423ecf5

  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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