[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 48 (Thursday, March 22, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H1542]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

           By Mr. FITZPATRICK:
       H.R. 4248.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, section 8 of the United States Constitution
       (clauses 12, 13, 14, and 16), which grants Congress the 
     power to raise and support an Army; to provide and maintain a 
     Navy; to make rules for the government and regulation of the 
     land and naval forces; and to provide for organizing, arming, 
     and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of 
     them as may be employed in the Service of the United States.

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