[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 63 (Wednesday, April 30, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H3364]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

            By Mr. COOPER:
        H.R. 4533.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 18, which states that the 
     Congress shall have the 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 or Officer thereof.
       Article II, Section 2, Clause 2, which states that the 
     President shall nominate, and 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, whose 
     appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which 
     shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest 
     the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think 
     proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in 
     the heads of departments.