Energy Diplomacy Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1311.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1311, Energy Diplomacy Act” on January 18, 2022. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on September 30, 2021”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 18, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57738

  CBO publication date

  January 18, 2022

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1311, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/1311

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  65404a973809f16050101afdd07f339e51ca8ccf0cd0fa94c2b6a78a8aa283e0

• 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. PFLUGER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 35, February 24, 2021, Page H618):
  Article 1, Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 24, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1311, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/1311

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  65404a973809f16050101afdd07f339e51ca8ccf0cd0fa94c2b6a78a8aa283e0

  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 April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1311, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 16, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.