Energy Resource Governance Initiative Act of 2021

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2785.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2785, Energy Resource Governance Initiative Act of 2021” on June 8, 2021. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on May 19, 2021”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 8, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57268

  CBO publication date

  June 8, 2021

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2785, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/2785

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2dd203bfd87bdf4143429753b9b995b6a49ac50096589c7dc03d234a5f8cd707

• 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. KINZINGER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 70, April 22, 2021, Page H2108):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 22, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  40 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2785, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/2785

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2dd203bfd87bdf4143429753b9b995b6a49ac50096589c7dc03d234a5f8cd707

  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. 2785, 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.