[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 31 (Thursday, March 3, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H1576]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

            By Mr. GOHMERT:
        H.R. 920.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to 
     Congress under Article I, Section 9, Clause 7, ``No Money 
     shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of 
     Appropriations made by Law.'' Furthermore, under Article I, 
     Section 8, Clause 18, ``Congress shall have the power . . . 
     [t]o make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for 
     carrying into Execution . . . all other Powers vested by this 
     Constitution in the Government of the United States.'' It is 
     within Congress' power to regulate the appropriation of money 
     from the Treasury and this bill is ``necessary'' to stop the 
     automatic increase in national spending.