NSF and USDA Interagency Research Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8613.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 8613, NSF and USDA Interagency Research Act” on November 20, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on June 13, 2024”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 20, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61038

  CBO publication date

  November 20, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8613, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8613

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7baedf94afef81f5e62ca39b7e02b1ab18c005b7a56768afea491de359399aaa

• 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. LUCAS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 95, June 4, 2024, Page H3656):
  U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 18: ``The Congress shall have Power. . . . To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the forgoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in he Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.'' The single subject of this legislation is: To direct the Secretary of Agriculture and the Director of the National Science Foundation to carry out cross-cutting and collaborative research and development activities focused on the joint advancement of Department of Agriculture and National Science Foundation mission requirements and priorities.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 4, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  669 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8613, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8613

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7baedf94afef81f5e62ca39b7e02b1ab18c005b7a56768afea491de359399aaa

  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. 8613, 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.