House bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
Federal Student Loan Refinancing Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 9, 2014
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 13, 2014 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4622.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. POCAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H4059):The Congress shall have Power . . . To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.Source: Congress.gov, record updated March 23, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 136 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4622, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/4622
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- March 23, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
9688f534a53064f97abc9342c8e45948f347611d4debc24aed582c2a0c1259d0
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 CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of March 23, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
42 cosponsors — 42 Democrats
0 of 42 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Karen Bass (D-CA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Cheri Bustos (D-IL), G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), Judy Chu (D-CA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Steve Cohen (D-TN), John Conyers (D-MI), Joseph Crowley (D-NY), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Keith Ellison (D-MN), William Enyart (D-IL), Marcia Fudge (D-OH), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Janice Hahn (D-CA), Brian Higgins (D-NY), Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX), Rush Holt (D-NJ), Jared Huffman (D-CA), David Loebsack (D-IA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Sean Maloney (D-NY), James McGovern (D-MA), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Gloria Negrete McLeod (D-CA), Ed Perlmutter (D-CO), Scott Peters (D-CA) and 12 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 113th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Mark Pocan.
- H.R. 2839 (113th) Restore Honor to Service Members Act
- H.R. 3135 (113th) Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2013
- H.J.Res. 44 (113th) Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the right to vote.
- H.R. 5239 (113th) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income any discharge of student loan indebtedness.
- H.R. 5533 (113th) PACE Act
- H.R. 5451 (113th) Next Generation Research Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 23, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.