[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 5, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H47]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

           By Mr. WILSON of South Carolina:
       H.R. 180.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, section 8 of the United States Constitution 
     (clauses 12, 13, 14, and 16), which grants Congress the power 
     to raise and support an Army; to provide and maintain a Navy; 
     to make rules for the government and regulation of the land 
     and naval forces; and to provide for organizing, arming, and 
     disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them 
     as may be employed in the Service of the United States, 
     reserving to the States, respectively, the appointment of 
     officers, and the authority of training the militia according 
     to the discipline prescribed by Congress.