To amend title 38, United States Code, to reduce the credit hour requirement for the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship program of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2196.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2196, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to reduce the credit hour requirement for the Edith Nourse” on May 15, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on May 8, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 15, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55250

  CBO publication date

  May 15, 2019

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2196, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/2196

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8f836cbb13771d5381f8de6ff45795dd7d0430b63ca3fe977c53dedfa26b9817

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 116-118 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Veterans' Affairs Committee on June 18, 2019.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported June 18, 2019 ↗

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  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/116/HRPT/118

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2196, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/2196

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8f836cbb13771d5381f8de6ff45795dd7d0430b63ca3fe977c53dedfa26b9817

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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. BARR, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 62, April 10, 2019, Page H3256):
  Article I, Section 8, clauses 12 and 13, which gives Congress the power ``To raise and support Armies,'' and ``To provide and maintain a Navy.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 10, 2019 ↗

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  Statement length

  142 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2196, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/2196

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8f836cbb13771d5381f8de6ff45795dd7d0430b63ca3fe977c53dedfa26b9817

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

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