To deem certain individuals as parents of Department of Veterans Affairs employees for purposes of determining entitlement to certain family and medical leave for such employees.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7948.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. RAMIREZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 47, March 16, 2026, Page H2530):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 16, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  61 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7948, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/7948

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 25, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 12, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3497386d18674b5c4d0e87f99e017665e8df9e4c2b342713d607566134638efa

  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 25, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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