FEHB Protection Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7868.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 7868, FEHB Protection Act” on August 16, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on April 10, 2024”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 16, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60649

  CBO publication date

  August 16, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7868, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7868

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f06dfb4d26ba999013f833cb8ad8fd39c3a7c1bb5ad8122858d65ebf55bed198

• 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. WALTZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 58, April 5, 2024, Page H2142):
  Article I, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: Congressional Oversight
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 5, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  87 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7868, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7868

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f06dfb4d26ba999013f833cb8ad8fd39c3a7c1bb5ad8122858d65ebf55bed198

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7868, last updated May 27, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.