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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4490.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4490, Providing Appropriate Recognition and Treatment Needed to Enhance Relations Act” on August 28, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on July 22, 2025”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 28, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61702

  CBO publication date

  August 28, 2025

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4490, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4490

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 7, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 12, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• 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. CASTRO of Texas, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 123, July 17, 2025, Page H3476):
  Constitutional Authority--Necessary and Proper Clause (Art. I, Sec. 8, Clause 18) THE U.S. CONSTITUTION ARTICLE I, SECTION 8: POWERS OF CONGRESS CLAUSE 18 The Congress shall have 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 officer thereof.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 17, 2025 ↗

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  Statement length

  423 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4490, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4490

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 7, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 12, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d63869c66a483838ed7028e4a8a86e7ea172872279f8fb22cff9615c4ecd26b0

  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 7, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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