To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish in the Department the Veterans Economic Opportunity and Transition Administration, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2494.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2494, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish the Veterans Economic Opportunity and Transition Administration, and for other purposes” on May 14, 2021. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on May 4, 2021”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 14, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57215

  CBO publication date

  May 14, 2021

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2494, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/2494

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3c659cf9a74d45744f3a3550bc449ecc35b7fbb9cb963d2f2f24fdaee4f873f6

• 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. WENSTRUP, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 63, April 13, 2021, Page H1738):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 13, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  54 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2494, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/2494

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3c659cf9a74d45744f3a3550bc449ecc35b7fbb9cb963d2f2f24fdaee4f873f6

  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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2494, last updated December 5, 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.