Reducing Costs of DHS Acquisitions Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6861.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 6861, Reducing Costs of DHS Acquisitions Act” on May 17, 2022. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on March 2, 2022”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 17, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58123

  CBO publication date

  May 17, 2022

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6861, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/6861

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2fddd32b8489689a7960ae037c6091e260ee319b3ce53780a734ea8bfc30abaf

• 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. CLYDE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 168, No. 36, February 28, 2022, Page H1176):
  Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 28, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  46 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6861, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/6861

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2fddd32b8489689a7960ae037c6091e260ee319b3ce53780a734ea8bfc30abaf

  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. 6861, 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.