[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 122 (Thursday, July 31, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H7187]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

            By Mr. MULVANEY:
        H.R. 5360.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 1. ``The Congress shall have 
     Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, 
     to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and 
     general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts 
     and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.''
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 3. ``To regulate Commerce with 
     foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the 
     Indian Tribes.''
       Article I Section 8, Clause 4. ``To establish a uniform 
     rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of 
     bankruptcies throughout the United States.''
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 8. ``To Promote the progress 
     of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to 
     authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective 
     writings and discoveries.''
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 9. ``To constitute tribunals 
     inferior to the Supreme Court.''
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 14. ``To make Rules for the 
     Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces.''
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 18. ``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 III, Section 1, Clause 1. ``The judicial power of 
     the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and 
     in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time 
     ordain and establish.''
       Article III, Section 2. ``The judicial power shall extend 
     to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this 
     Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties 
     made, or which shall be made, under their authority;--to all 
     cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and 
     consuls;--to all cases of admiralty and maritime 
     jurisdiction;--to controversies to which the United States 
     shall be a party;--to controversies between two or more 
     states;--between a state and citizens of another state;--
     between citizens of different states;--between citizens of 
     the same state claiming lands under grants of different 
     states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and 
     foreign states, citizens or subjects.
       In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers 
     and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the 
     Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the 
     other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have 
     appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such 
     exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall 
     make.''
       Article IV, Section 3. ``The Congress shall have power to 
     dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations 
     respecting the territory or other property belonging to the 
     United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so 
     construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or 
     of any particular state.''