Original Honoring Our WWII Merchant Mariners Act of 2025

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 39.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GREEN of Texas, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 1, January 3, 2025, Page H36):
  Necessary and Proper Clause (Art. 1, Sec. 8, Cl. 18) The single subject of this legislation is: To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish the Merchant Mariner Equity Compensation Fund to provide benefits to certain individuals who served in the United States merchant marine (including the Army Transport Service
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2025 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 39, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/39

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 20, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4227e914d35fd0d4dbd3d5b769be036814bc775e3a16c771f1518f7b3b0ffbc5

  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 December 20, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 39, last updated December 20, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.