Humanitarian Assistance to the Venezuelan People Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 854.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 854, Humanitarian Assistance to the Venezuelan People Act of 2019” on March 21, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on March 14, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 21, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55046

  CBO publication date

  March 21, 2019

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 854, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/854

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  43ab0e51d94d62c1766467f64fd0d473e3f6702f56b42f9b331d38c5c59bbdfa

• 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 Ms. MUCARSEL-POWELL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 18, January 29, 2019, Page H1284):
  Article I, section 8 of the U.S. Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 29, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  45 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 854, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/854

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  43ab0e51d94d62c1766467f64fd0d473e3f6702f56b42f9b331d38c5c59bbdfa

  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. 854, 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.