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Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9857.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. VELAZQUEZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 150, September 25, 2024, Page H5832):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 The Congress shall have Power to . . . provide for the . . . general Welfare of the United States; . . . The single subject of this legislation is: Education
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 25, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  188 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9857, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9857

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 15, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  266bf6ed9a1e93690a8ba0b3992bd947033707d1a07a7af0f944ff650d0bff3f

  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 August 15, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 9857, last updated August 15, 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.