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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3843.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3843, Countering Russian and Other Overseas Kleptocracy Act” on February 13, 2020. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on December 18, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 13, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56133

  CBO publication date

  February 13, 2020

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3843, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3843

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  456dafa7fca57cc2ae578fe31c2e70f9252d6de611ccfdede7b8ef7af37a2505

• 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. KEATING, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 121, July 18, 2019, Pages H7151-H7152):
  Article 1, Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 18, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3843, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3843

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  456dafa7fca57cc2ae578fe31c2e70f9252d6de611ccfdede7b8ef7af37a2505

  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 January 3, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3843, last updated January 3, 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.