RENACER Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2946.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2946, Reinforcing Nicaragua’s Adherence to Conditions for Electoral Reform Act of 2021” on August 25, 2021. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on July 28, 2021”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 25, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57437

  CBO publication date

  August 25, 2021

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2946, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/2946

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2b9cf2e6fe45364ba7be4dfe19c267ccdc71dbfe334a2384183cdbd48ac876ff

• 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. SIRES, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 75, April 30, 2021, Page H2135):
  Pursuant to clause 3 (d) (1) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, the Committee finds the authority for this legislation in article I, section 8 of the Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 30, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  187 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2946, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/2946

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2b9cf2e6fe45364ba7be4dfe19c267ccdc71dbfe334a2384183cdbd48ac876ff

  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. 2946, 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.