Restoring Integrity and Efficiency to Inspector General Oversight Act of 2026

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9725.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 9725, Restoring Integrity and Efficiency to Inspector General Oversight Act of 2026” on August 27, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on July 22, 2026”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 27, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62717

  CBO publication date

  August 27, 2026

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9725, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/9725

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 27, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 12, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 116, July 16, 2026, Page H4624):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18: 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 16, 2026 ↗

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  Statement length

  265 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9725, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/9725

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 27, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 12, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  cccc7d7bec87caab53fa69a16b595618e668dd31b8b3ba976b03871af0219ac7

  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 27, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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