ASTRO Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2984.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2984, ASTRO Act” on August 11, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on April 29, 2025”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 11, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61656

  CBO publication date

  August 11, 2025

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2984, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2984

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7d0e348a3ec74e64f0724244141cc4c8a7dad6b2e27658ee50775ddfe48eb01f

• 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. BABIN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 69, April 24, 2025, Page H1624):
  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 the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 24, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  323 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2984, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2984

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7d0e348a3ec74e64f0724244141cc4c8a7dad6b2e27658ee50775ddfe48eb01f

  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 August 28, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2984, last updated August 28, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.