BOLIVAR Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 688.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 688, BOLIVAR Act” on April 23, 2021. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on March 17, 2021”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 23, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57137

  CBO publication date

  April 23, 2021

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 688, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/s/688

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  769ebec56cf3a4c4a600a38368e022f286b54e97f05ca86a7e1bd87c96a632c6

• 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.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: S. Rept. 117-28 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on July 12, 2021.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported July 12, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/117/SRPT/28

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 688, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/s/688

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  769ebec56cf3a4c4a600a38368e022f286b54e97f05ca86a7e1bd87c96a632c6

  A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.

From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 688, 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.