[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 191 (Tuesday, December 13, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H8880]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

           By Mr. DENHAM:
       H.R. 3640.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1
       The Court invoked ``the great power of taxation to be 
     exercised for the common defence and general welfare'' to 
     sustain the right of the Federal Goverment to acquire land 
     within a state for use as a national park. [160 U.S. at 681]