[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 38 (Thursday, March 6, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H2256-H2257]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

            By Mr. ROSKAM:
        H.R. 4158.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       (a) Article I, Section 1, to exercise the legislative 
     powers vested in Congress as granted in the Constitution; and
       (b) Article I, Section 8, Clause 18, which gives Congress 
     the authority ``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 or 
     Officer thereof''; and
       (c) Article I, Section 9, Clause 7, which states that ``No 
     Money shall be drawn from

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     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''; and
       (d) Article II, Section 2, Clause 2, which states that the 
     President, ``by and with the Advice and Consent of the 
     Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and 
     Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers 
     of the United States. . .''