BURMA Act of 2022

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5497.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5497, Burma Unified through Rigorous Military Accountability Act of 2021” on February 14, 2022. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on October 21, 2021”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 14, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57776

  CBO publication date

  February 14, 2022

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5497, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/5497

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  5df1b452aceb8119a0ff73585cee002b82467ff6d6f2c842d0761ee27c639746

• 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. MEEKS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 175, October 5, 2021, Page H5601):
  Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 5, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  41 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5497, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/5497

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  5df1b452aceb8119a0ff73585cee002b82467ff6d6f2c842d0761ee27c639746

  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 January 10, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5497, last updated January 10, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 16, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.