State Department Recurring Reports Repeal and Sunset Act of 2026

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8668.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 8668, State Department Recurring Reports Repeal and Sunset Act of 2026” on June 17, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on May 13, 2026”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 17, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62514

  CBO publication date

  June 17, 2026

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8668, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8668

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 19, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  319b33caa54e4b237ea17cb7d823f0533a9a874026e6bcd440c4600f06524ffe

• 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. SELF, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 78, May 7, 2026, Page H3342):
  Congress has the power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States, including oversight of executive departments and foreign affairs authorities, pursuant to Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 7, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  345 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8668, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8668

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 19, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  319b33caa54e4b237ea17cb7d823f0533a9a874026e6bcd440c4600f06524ffe

  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. 8668, 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.