House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Technical Education and Career Help (TEACH) Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedDec 16, 2015
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 23, 2016 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4263.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MOONEY of West Virginia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 183, December 16, 2015, Page H9375):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution states that ``The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.''Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 16, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 259 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4263, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4263
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- March 23, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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
13 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 9 Democrats
9 of 13 cosponsors (69%) are from the other party.
Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Ami Bera (D-CA), Rod Blum (R-IA), Katherine Clark (D-MA), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), John Katko (R-NY), Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ), James Langevin (D-RI), Thomas MacArthur (R-NJ), Sean Maloney (D-NY), Bruce Poliquin (R-ME), Mike Quigley (D-IL), David Scott (D-GA).
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Alexander Mooney.
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.