Advancing International and Foreign Language Education Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2940.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 75, April 30, 2021, Page H2135):
  As described in Article 1, Section 1, ``all legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.'' Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution provides Congress with the authority to ``provide for the common Defense and general Welfare'' of Americans. In the Department of Education Organization Act (P.L. 96- 88), Congress declared that ``the establishment of a Department of Education is in the public interest, will promote the general welfare of the United States, will help ensure that education issues receive proper treatment at the Federal level, and will enable the Federal Government…
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 30, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  936 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2940, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/2940

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  65ee79e380afadcc0a0d4b820d6018f2a5242279b49283da30ddf2e914d6fa1d

  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 July 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2940, last updated July 21, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 16, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.