Major General David F. Wherley, Jr., District of Columbia National Guard Retention and College Access Program Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9048.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. NORTON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 116, July 15, 2024, Pages H4633-H4634):
  Clauses 16 and 17 of Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: This bill would permanently authorize funding for the Major General David F. Wherley, Jr., District of Columbia National Guard Retention and College Access Program, which provides financial assistance for higher education to members of the D.C. National Guard.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 15, 2024 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9048, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9048

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  345b17b77e5a11ce5ab9e5217bf5a794c8abe276bd62e8f9a92b3f8953f3bd6a

  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 June 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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