To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3901 MacArthur Blvd., in New Orleans, Louisiana, as the "Dr. Rudy Lombard Post Office".

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 996.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 996, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3901 MacArthur Blvd., in New Orleans, Louisiana, as the “Dr. Rudy Lombard Post Office Building”” on July 21, 2023. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on July 12, 2023”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 21, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59410

  CBO publication date

  July 21, 2023

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 996, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/996

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  13656035bdd7cd823a276b492f873592f6fa3b95e19a931aab20d0e92cb97952

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 996, an act to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3901 MacArthur Blvd. in New Orleans, Louisiana, as the “Dr. Rudy Lombard Post Office”” on February 8, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on February 6, 2024”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 8, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59955

  CBO publication date

  February 8, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 996, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/996

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  13656035bdd7cd823a276b492f873592f6fa3b95e19a931aab20d0e92cb97952

• 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. CARTER of Louisiana, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 30, February 14, 2023, Page H840):
  This bill introduced pursuant to the powers granted to Congress under the General Welfare Clause (Art. 1 Sec. 8 C1. 1), the Commerce Clause (Art. 1 Sec. 8 C1. 3), and the Necessary and Proper Clause (Art. 1 Sec. 8 C1. 18). Further, this statement of constitutional authority is made for the sole purpose of compliance with The single subject of this legislation is: post office renaming
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 14, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  386 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 996, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/996

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  13656035bdd7cd823a276b492f873592f6fa3b95e19a931aab20d0e92cb97952

  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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