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. 169, No. 27, February 9, 2023, Page H827):
  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. The single subject of this legislation is: Ending the Department of Education
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 9, 2023 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 899, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/899

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f2289b12ea5182cac68e225640aeca5cec3c947f9ea6f8ab32790fbb60084cc1

  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.

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