[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 22 (Friday, February 11, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H725]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

           By Mr. LUETKEMEYER:
       H.R. 680.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is 
     the power of Congress to explicitly lay and collect taxes, 
     duties, imposts and excises, to pay the Debts and provide for 
     the common defense and general welfare of the United States; 
     and therefore implicitly allows Congress to cut spending; as 
     enumerated in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United 
     States Constitution.