Higher Standards for Higher Education Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3453.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. VAN DUYNE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 83, May 17, 2023, Page H2429):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To require the Secretary of Education to report default and other data for each program of study of certain institutions of higher education for which the Secretary annually reports cohort default data under the Higher Education Act of 1965.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 17, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  305 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3453, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/3453

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  344c79544545ac0fd16f452d7b82f1301b8c63c99f417e50ad0dc6c43a22c32d

  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. 3453, last updated July 21, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.