BOLIVAR Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 257.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 257, Banning Operations and Leases with the Illegitimate Venezuelan Authoritarian Regime Act” on April 4, 2023. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on March 29, 2023”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 4, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59031

  CBO publication date

  April 4, 2023

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 257, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/s/257

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  10a3fb0f77c0f1ac9a15b2bf324ca88b60b025c466bcb8dbdada273fa45ac01d

• 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.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: S. Rept. 118-29 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on May 16, 2023.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported May 16, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/118/SRPT/29

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 257, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/s/257

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  10a3fb0f77c0f1ac9a15b2bf324ca88b60b025c466bcb8dbdada273fa45ac01d

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From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 257, last updated December 5, 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.