No Paydays for Hostage-Takers Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5826.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5826, No Paydays for Hostage-Takers Act” on November 9, 2023. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on October 19, 2023”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 9, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59717

  CBO publication date

  November 9, 2023

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5826, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5826

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9876a7d3ba8bb07bc01c412ed441fd1baeb670f5463ea0cc3ca3acc59b70b7e4

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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. WILSON of South Carolina, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 158, September 28, 2023, Page H4857):
  U.S. Constitution Article 1. Section 8. The single subject of this legislation is: To require a report on sanctions under the Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 28, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  197 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5826, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5826

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9876a7d3ba8bb07bc01c412ed441fd1baeb670f5463ea0cc3ca3acc59b70b7e4

  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 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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