To terminate the Department of Education.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 899.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MASSIE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 22, February 5, 2021, Page H470):
  Article I, section 8 of the United States Constitution sets forth Congress's enumerated powers, and the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 5, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  318 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 899, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/899

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d65b3aed44db78116a94a609c98926f47238db551bf5b9e27371157ff6743383

  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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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