To amend title 38, United States Code, to repeal a certain limitation on the receipt of assistance under both the Department of Veterans Affairs Veteran Readiness and Employment program and Department of Veterans Affairs educational assistance programs.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7472.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PETERS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 28, February 10, 2026, Page H2119):
  Article I, Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 10, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7472, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/7472

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 7, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2052f70d9eb948837e48f402fc5b30f053ed165a0bd983548e5710fef3f8ae38

  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 March 7, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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