[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 4, 2017)]
[House]
[Page H97]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

           By Mr. ROE of Tennessee:
       H.R. 277.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, with respect to the power 
     to ``lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises,'' 
     and to provide for the ``general Welfare of the United 
     States.'' Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. 
     Constitution gives Congress the power to ``regulate Commerce 
     with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with 
     the Indian Tribes.''