Words Matter for the District of Columbia Courts Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 3698.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 3698, Words Matter for the District of Columbia Courts Act” on June 20, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on April 10, 2024”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 20, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60436

  CBO publication date

  June 20, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 3698, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/s/3698

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e4730fd48ae2fcba1cb8fdb899c642f218c529a83b60fb41ebb168a3e830c395

• 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. 118-219 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on September 10, 2024.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 10, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/118/SRPT/219

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 3698, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/s/3698

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e4730fd48ae2fcba1cb8fdb899c642f218c529a83b60fb41ebb168a3e830c395

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From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 3698, 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.