[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 14, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H224]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

            By Mr. RENACCI:
        H.R. 3864.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution, 
     whereby Congress shall have the power ``[t]o provide for the 
     common Defence and general Welfare of the United States.''
       As affirmed by Justice Benjamin Cardozo in Steward Machine 
     Company v. Davis, 301 U.S. 548 (1937), upholding the 
     constitutionality of unemployment benefits.