DREAMers, Immigrants, and Refugees (DIRe) Legal Aid Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 858.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CORREA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 19, February 3, 2017, Page H977):
  (1) The U.S. Constitution including Article 1, Section 8.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 3, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  57 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 858, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/858

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7fd579b276b75ae6ba4a58cacc5c3bd73969e3cb56e8d8a652cadbd0eed7fcdd

  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 11, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 858, last updated August 11, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 21, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.