Gandhi-King Scholarly Exchange Initiative Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5517.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5517, Gandhi-King Scholarly Exchange Initiative Act” on September 9, 2020. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on July 29, 2020”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 9, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56559

  CBO publication date

  September 9, 2020

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5517, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/5517

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  db17bfc69605108b7e323d781e5687a64bf914cd20a9c488afca9bfb54ed9e9b

• 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. LEWIS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 206, December 19, 2019, Page H12291):
  This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article I of the United States Constitution and its subsequent amendments, and further clarified and interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 19, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  224 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5517, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/5517

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  db17bfc69605108b7e323d781e5687a64bf914cd20a9c488afca9bfb54ed9e9b

  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 May 28, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5517, last updated May 28, 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.