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 February 18, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on February 11, 2015”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 18, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/49960

  CBO publication date

  February 18, 2015

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d7951250b0fe892049877c067f0c98cf82913d715987ac6df45053024e07aebe

• 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. 114-24 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Education and Workforce Committee on February 20, 2015.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported February 20, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/24

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d7951250b0fe892049877c067f0c98cf82913d715987ac6df45053024e07aebe

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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 (Vol. 161, No. 18, February 3, 2015, Page H756):
  Article 1, section 8 of the Constitution of the United States
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 3, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  61 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d7951250b0fe892049877c067f0c98cf82913d715987ac6df45053024e07aebe

  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 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.