Modernizing Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Benefit Questionnaires Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7188.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 7188, Modernizing Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Benefit Questionnaires Act” on August 26, 2022. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on July 19, 2022”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 26, 2022 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58360

  CBO publication date

  August 26, 2022

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7188, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/7188

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  529678837b35c68a256d544ffa5674801f841d0ff3e91f71a3c2cca995a9c8fe

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. NEHLS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 168, No. 50, March 21, 2022, Page H3859):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of U.S. Constitution By Mr. NEWHOUSE H.R. 7189. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4 of the United States Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 21, 2022 ↗

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  Statement length

  219 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7188, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/7188

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  529678837b35c68a256d544ffa5674801f841d0ff3e91f71a3c2cca995a9c8fe

  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.

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