Emergency Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3237.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “Discretionary Spending in H.R. 3237 - Emergency Security Supplemental to Respond to January 6th Appropriations Act, 2021” on May 18, 2021. CBO’s description reads “As introduced on May 14, 2021”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 18, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57228

  CBO publication date

  May 18, 2021

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3237, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/3237

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “CBO’s Estimate for Senate Amendment 2123, an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 3237, the Emergency Security Supplemental Appropriations Act” on July 29, 2021. CBO’s description reads “As amended”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 29, 2021 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57400

  CBO publication date

  July 29, 2021

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3237, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/3237

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• 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 Ms. DeLAURO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 84, May 14, 2021, Page H2357):
  The principal constitutional authority for this legislation is clause 7 of section 9 of article I of the Constitution of the United States (the appropriation power), which states: ``No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law . . . .'' In addition, clause 1 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution (the spending power) provides: ``The Congress shall have the Power . . . to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States . . . '' Together, these specific constitutional provisions establish the congressional power of the purse, granting Congress the authority to appropriate funds, to determine their…
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 14, 2021 ↗

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  Statement length

  802 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3237, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/3237

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a5a31787ccf8ef0d8bcbd6f90dd5235a6e4882e13d10b4be760ee92fc3cdf23c

  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 September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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