[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 92 (Tuesday, June 25, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H4038]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

            By Mr. CONAWAY:
        H.R. 2478.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is 
     Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United State 
     Constitution which provides Congress with the power to 
     ``provide for...the general Welfare of the United States'' 
     and in Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States 
     Constitution, which provides Congress the power to ``... make 
     all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying 
     into Execution...all other Powers vested by this Constitution 
     in the Government of the United States or, on in any 
     Department or Officer thereof.''