To direct the Secretary of Transportation to develop and implement a comprehensive Campus Modernization Plan for the United States Merchant Marine Academy, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2429.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GARBARINO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 56, March 27, 2025, Page H1338):
  Article I, Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 27, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2429, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2429

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 3, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  fc51ff3e05852232ad4622bd19c32fa24e0f262cc50f895c997279d8bcce867c

  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 February 3, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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