VA Hospitals Establishing Leadership Performance Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 293.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 293, VA Hospitals Establishing Leadership Performance Act” on May 25, 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 25, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57246

  CBO publication date

  May 25, 2021

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 293, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/293

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BOST, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 8, January 13, 2021, Page H194):
  Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, which states ``[t]he Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States''.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 13, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  336 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 293, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/293

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  dd6da066865551ebafb110ddd6917322bb4a2a4a92ce1ce17285f3e993f9454e

  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.

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