Department of Energy Veterans’ Health Initiative Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 617.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 617, Department of Energy Veterans’ Health Initiative Act” on February 5, 2020. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on December 17, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 5, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56110

  CBO publication date

  February 5, 2020

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 617, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/617

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  06ed77c89ec102c79f48c584d3cb0be1a9290aa598fc53e4e2e2aecc6a7587cf

• 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. NORMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 9, January 16, 2019, Page H677):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 The Congress shall have Power To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoign Powers, and all othe rPowers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 16, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  294 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 617, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/617

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  06ed77c89ec102c79f48c584d3cb0be1a9290aa598fc53e4e2e2aecc6a7587cf

  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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