MEGOBARI Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8566.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 8566, Mobilizing and Enhancing Georgia’s Options for Building Accountability, Resilience, and Independence Act” on September 13, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on July 11, 2024”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 13, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60633

  CBO publication date

  September 13, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8566, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8566

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  635cb8b40f043e96bfe98d093db1a99e389855b899aaed0669c17196e7bdea8f

• 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. WILSON of South Carolina, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 90, May 23, 2024, Page H3525):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To support the democratic aspirations of the people of Georgia against malign Russian influence.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 23, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  160 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8566, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8566

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  635cb8b40f043e96bfe98d093db1a99e389855b899aaed0669c17196e7bdea8f

  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. 8566, 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.