Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Health Extenders Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4378.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4378, Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Health Extenders Act of 2019” on September 18, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As posted on the House Rules Committee website on September 18, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 18, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55643

  CBO publication date

  September 18, 2019

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4378, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4378

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• 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. 150, September 18, 2019, Page H7774):
  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 September 18, 2019 ↗

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  Statement length

  801 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4378, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4378

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  dcb1d2d3539a5e0fa1e157478438431af60c5ebaa55c5f74dd5700dab81cfff0

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4378, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 20, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.