[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 44 (Friday, March 16, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H1366]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

           By Mr. GOSAR:
       H.R. 4198.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       First, Congress has the power to regulate interstate 
     commerce pursuant to Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the 
     U.S. Constitution. This clause provides, in relevant part: 
     ``The Congress shall have Power To . . . regulate Commerce . 
     . . among the several states . . .'' Congress has the power 
     to regulate traffic and intercourse between the states. 
     Gibbons v. Ogden (1824). (``Commerce, undoubtedly, is 
     traffic, but it is something more; it is intercourse. It 
     describes the commercial intercourse between nations and 
     parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by 
     prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse . . .
       Second, Congress has the express authority to create rules 
     and regulations with regard to federal property pursuant to 
     Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution. 
     This clause provides that ``Congress shall have the power to 
     . . . make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the 
     Territory or other Property belonging to the United States . 
     . .'' This grants Congress the power to act as an ordinary 
     property owner, including the power to regulate who may enter 
     and for what purposes.