[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 12, 2017)]
[House]
[Page H7313]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

            By Mr. DeSANTIS:
        H.R. 3737.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 (The President . . . 
     ``shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of 
     the Senate shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers 
     and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other 
     Officers of the United States, who Appointments are not 
     herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established 
     by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of 
     such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the 
     President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of 
     Departments.''), Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 (``The 
     Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, 
     Imposes, and Excises, to pay the debts and provide for the 
     common Defense and general Welfare of the United States. . . 
     .''), and Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 (The Congress shall 
     have Power 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.'').