DHS Acquisition Reform Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6871.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 6871, DHS Acquisition Reform Act” on April 6, 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, April 6, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57967

  CBO publication date

  April 6, 2022

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6871, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/6871

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0c72b7db83d1827b53d4358da7555f1fcb694e5ef18757157069a7c9871ad4c5

• 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. LaTURNER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 168, No. 36, February 28, 2022, Page H1176):
  Article I, Section 8 which provides Congress the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises to pay the debt and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 28, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  202 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6871, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/6871

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0c72b7db83d1827b53d4358da7555f1fcb694e5ef18757157069a7c9871ad4c5

  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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