Fairness and Opportunities for Married Households With Student Loans Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3623.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MARCHANT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 140, September 28, 2015, Page H6307):
  U.S. Constitution Art. I Sec. 8 cl. 1, under the ``Power To lay and collect Taxes''; Amd. 16, under the ``power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration''; and Art. I Sec. 8 cl. 18, under the 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 September 28, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  556 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3623, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3623

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f1144e628721b267d21d88246023ec3b3067db77e0747987e5d21b846024e436

  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 August 12, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3623, last updated August 12, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.