To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2407 State Route 71, Suite 1, in Spring Lake, New Jersey, as the "James J. Howard Post Office".

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1431.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1431, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2407 State Route 71, Suite 1, in Spring Lake, New Jersey, as the “James J. Howard Post Office”” on December 8, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on December 2, 2025”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, December 8, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61920

  CBO publication date

  December 8, 2025

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1431, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1431

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 24, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0c1568150af9472dd38d0088729b0e98c0fe42ad9bfb68b1e670842113ab75b7

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1431, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2407 State Route 71, Suite 1, in Spring Lake, New Jersey, as the "James J. Howard Post Office"” on August 12, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on August 6, 2026”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 12, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62653

  CBO publication date

  August 12, 2026

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1431, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1431

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 24, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0c1568150af9472dd38d0088729b0e98c0fe42ad9bfb68b1e670842113ab75b7

• 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. PALLONE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 32, February 18, 2025, Page H724):
  Clause 7 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 18, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  54 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1431, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1431

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 24, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0c1568150af9472dd38d0088729b0e98c0fe42ad9bfb68b1e670842113ab75b7

  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 September 24, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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