Senate bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Strengthening Education through Research Act
Sponsor: Sen. Lamar Alexander R-TNWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 21, 2015
- Committee actionFeb 4, 2015
- Passed SenateDec 17, 2015 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 18, 2015 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 227.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 227, Strengthening Education through Research” on January 31, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on January 28, 2015”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 31, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/49922
- CBO publication date
- January 31, 2015
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 227, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/s/227
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- March 4, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
a5aab9e8b205ca6eb63a25dbbe60dcd0275468ea08635b9c9d78e0e6fa21fe2f
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 227, Strengthening Education through Research” on January 31, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on January 28, 2015”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 31, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/49922
- CBO publication date
- January 31, 2015
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 227, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/s/227
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- March 4, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
a5aab9e8b205ca6eb63a25dbbe60dcd0275468ea08635b9c9d78e0e6fa21fe2f
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.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of March 4, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 227, last updated March 4, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
1 cosponsor — 1 Democrat
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 22, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.