Student Success Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5, Student Success Act” on July 10, 2013. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on June 19, 2013”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 10, 2013 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/44411

  CBO publication date

  July 10, 2013

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/5

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  1f78d5e6b0b8aba4bf780d8485d083b1101b2d3774e1e251f323e37c131232b2

• 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.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 113-150 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Education and Workforce Committee on July 11, 2013.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported July 11, 2013 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/113/HRPT/150

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/5

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  1f78d5e6b0b8aba4bf780d8485d083b1101b2d3774e1e251f323e37c131232b2

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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. KLINE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H3251):
  Article I, section 8 of the Constitution of the United States
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated July 21, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  61 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/5

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  1f78d5e6b0b8aba4bf780d8485d083b1101b2d3774e1e251f323e37c131232b2

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5, last updated July 21, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 23, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.