To establish a National Science Foundation grant program to provide opportunities for and strengthen research capacity at institutions of higher education to stimulate sustainable improvement in existing research and development at such institutions, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2457.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CARTER of Louisiana, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 59, April 3, 2023, Page H1698):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 The single subject of this legislation is: To establish a National Science Foundation grant program to provide opportunities for and strengthen research capacity at institutions of higher education to stimulate sustainable improvement in existing research and development at such institutions.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 3, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  324 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2457, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2457

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 24, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  bb860b310f0f8f0b4aa9ee84d8b9f368db17c929d9ed0f38466bd4978ea2df2f

  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 24, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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