[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 46 (Wednesday, March 23, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H1584]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

            By Mr. GOSAR:
       H.R. 4856.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4 (the Naturalization Clause), 
     which gives Congress sovereign control over immigration and 
     the vesting of citizenship in aliens. In March 1790, Congress 
     passed the first uniform rule for naturalization under the 
     new Constitution. In Chirac v Lessee of Chirac (1817), the 
     Supreme Court affirmed this power rests exclusively with 
     Congress.