[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 56 (Friday, April 15, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H2915]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

           By Mr. DENHAM:
       H.R. 1604.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3--Power to Regulate Commerce
       ``The power to regulate commerce is the power to prescribe 
     conditions and rules for the carrying-on of commercial 
     transactions, the keeping-free of channels of commerce, the 
     regulating of prices and terms of sale.''
       ``If, as has always been understood, the sovereignty of 
     congress, though limited to specified objects, is plenary as 
     to those objects, the power over commerce with foreign 
     nations, and among the several states, is vested in congress 
     as absolutely as it would be in a single government, having 
     in its constitution the same restrictions on the exercise of 
     the power as are found in the constitution of the United 
     States.''
       Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U.S. (9 Wheat.) 1, 196-197 (1824).