Short Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 2015

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 721.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. JENKINS of Kansas, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 19, February 4, 2015, Page H813):
  Article I, Section 8: 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 February 4, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  200 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 721, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/721

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  30bbc7e069c765c75b563d34b3dff6215bdd99f132dd6eedb2e596209d40c7d7

  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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 721, last updated December 5, 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.