[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 122 (Thursday, July 31, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H7186]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

           By Mr. GOSAR:
       H.R. 5318.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The sale, transport, delivery, harvesting and storing of 
     cadavers, body parts, human tissues and samples typically 
     involves interstate commerce in that the original cadaver and 
     harvested organs there from start in one state but are 
     shipped to suppliers in other states. The nature of the 
     tissue harvesting and transplant business is typically 
     national in scope as donors and donees are matched through 
     national databases and then the tissue and parts are shipped 
     among the states.
       The power to regulate inter-state commerce is set forth 
     Article I, Section 8 power to ``regulate commerce among the 
     several states.'' If the matter in question is not a purely 
     local matter (intra-state) or if it has an impact on inter-
     state commerce, it falls within the Congressional power to 
     regulate interstate commerce. National Federation of 
     Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012).