Malala Yousafzai Scholarship Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4508.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4508, Malala Yousafzai Scholarship Act” on January 28, 2020. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on December 18, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 28, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56065

  CBO publication date

  January 28, 2020

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4508, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4508

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0906680e8b5cd647004c0a2fb7dcf3d95919fa6f30066856d5ca828d043a11f6

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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. JEFFRIES, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 156, September 26, 2019, Page H8055):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18, to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 26, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  264 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4508, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4508

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0906680e8b5cd647004c0a2fb7dcf3d95919fa6f30066856d5ca828d043a11f6

  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 committee report (as of May 28, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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