No Backdoors for Student Debt Cancellation Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8729.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GREEN of Tennessee, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 100, June 13, 2024, Page H4062):
  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. The single subject of this legislation is: To ensure that institutions of higher education that withhold certain transcripts are eligible to participate in title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 13, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  375 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8729, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8729

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6392c5891c6263a1ae886c5acb44860de45829bb43c2571055be692e57e24800

  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. 8729, 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.