[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 124 (Thursday, September 19, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H5766]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

           By Mr. LABRADOR:
       H.R. 3133.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       This legislation has been written pursuant to protections 
     guaranteed by the First Amendment, which outlines, ``Congress 
     shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or 
     prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the 
     freedom of speech,'' and the due process clause of the 14th 
     Amendment, which guarantees that no person will ``be deprived 
     of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.''
       The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is 
     the power of Congress ``to lay and collect taxes, duties, 
     imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the 
     common defense and general welfare of the United States; but 
     all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout 
     the United States'' as outlined in Article 1, Section 8, 
     Clause 1 of the Constitution. Additionally, Article 1, 
     Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitution 
     states, ``Congress shall have power to make all laws which 
     shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the 
     foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this 
     Constitution in the government of the United States, or in 
     any department of officer thereof.''