Pay Back Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4742.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. McCLAIN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 124, July 19, 2023, Page H3858):
  Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States. The single subject of this legislation is: This bill would prohibit the Secretary of Education, the Secretary of the Treasury, and Attorney General from cancelling student loans or making changes to the terms of student loans, without the explicit permission from Congress, from the date of enactment of this bill.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 19, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  379 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4742, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4742

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  76c3a5b52d504427896e5bfbaff4361b3aa99a99e0c09d89a462d2b2ba83cc3d

  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. 4742, 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.