[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 4 (Tuesday, January 15, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H172]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

            By Mr. FLEISCHMANN:
        H.R. 282.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The principal constitutional authority for this legislation 
     is clause 7 of section 9 of article I of the Constitution of 
     the United States (the appropriation power), which states: 
     ``No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in 
     Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular 
     Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all 
     public Money shall be published from time to time.''