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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 12, 2017)]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href='http://www.gpo.gov'>www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. DeSANTIS:H.R. 3737.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 (The President . . .``shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent ofthe Senate shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministersand Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all otherOfficers of the United States, who Appointments are notherein otherwise provided for, and which shall be establishedby Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment ofsuch inferior Officers, as they think proper, in thePresident alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads ofDepartments.''), Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 (``TheCongress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties,Imposes, and Excises, to pay the debts and provide for thecommon Defense and general Welfare of the United States. . ..''), and Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 (The Congress shallhave Power to make all Laws which shall be necessary andproper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, andall other Powers vested by this Constitution in theGovernment of the United States, or in any Department orOfficer thereof.'').[Page H7313]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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