[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 101 (Thursday, June 26, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H5818]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

            By Mr. LUETKEMEYER:
        H.R. 4986.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is 
     the explicit power of Congress to regulate commerce in and 
     among the states, as enumerate in Article 1, Section 8, 
     Clause 3, the Commerce Clause, of the United States 
     Constitution, and Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, which 
     grants Congress the ability to make laws necessary to carry 
     out that power. Additionally, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 9 
     grants Congress authority over federal courts and therefore 
     implicitly allows Congress to require Judicial Branch review 
     of Executive Branch actions. Finally, Article I, Section 7, 
     Clause 2 of the Constitution allows for every bill passed by 
     the House of Representatives and the Senate and signed by the 
     President to be made law; and therefore it implicitly allows 
     Congress to amend any bill that has been passed by both 
     chambers and signed into law by the President.