[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 62 (Monday, May 6, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H2437]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

            By Mr. BENTIVOLIO:
        H.R. 1831.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       (1) Article I, section 5, clauses 2 and 3 to determine the 
     rules and to keep a journal of its proceedings, respectively;
       (2) Article I, section 7, clause 2 to ensure that bills 
     that become law have been actually passed by, not just passed 
     through, each House of Congress; and
       (3) Article I, section 8, clause 18, which authorizes 
     Congress to make all laws that are necessary and proper for 
     carrying into execution the rules of each House.
       Furthermore, the provision of this Act under which any 
     person who is aggrieved by the enforcement of any law enacted 
     either in violation of the rules of proceedings of either 
     House of Congress, or by the suspension of such rules, as 
     prescribed herein, shall have standing in a court of law, is 
     pursuant to article III, section 2 of the Constitution of the 
     United States.