Bonuses for Cost-Cutters and Fraud Preventers Act of 2026

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 428.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 428, Bonuses for Cost-Cutters and Fraud Preventers Act of 2025” on April 21, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on March 18, 2026”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 21, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62369

  CBO publication date

  April 21, 2026

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 428, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/428

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 19, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ac460f1c0e1b8330139d274b8449abecd8423b0cd45bc88e6fe573b7928a38e6

• 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. FLEISCHMANN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 8, January 15, 2025, Page H186):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18, which states the Congress shall have the power ``to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or office thereof.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 15, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  315 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 428, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/428

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 19, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ac460f1c0e1b8330139d274b8449abecd8423b0cd45bc88e6fe573b7928a38e6

  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 19, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 428, last updated September 19, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 24, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.