[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 47 (Tuesday, March 25, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H2644]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

            By Mr. ROGERS of Michigan:
        H.R. 4291.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the 
     United States government including those under Title 50 and 
     the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, as 
     amended, are carried out to support the national security 
     interests of the United States, to support and assist the 
     armed forces of the United States, and to support the 
     President in the execution of the foreign policy of the 
     United States.
       Article I, section 8 of the Constitution of the United 
     States provides, in pertinent part, that ``Congress shall 
     have power . . . to pay the debts and provide for the common 
     defense and general welfare of the United States''; ``. . . 
     to raise and support armies . . .''; ``to constitute 
     Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court''; and ``To make all 
     laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into 
     Execution the foregoing Powers and all other Powers vested in 
     this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or 
     in any Department or Officer thereof.''