[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 108 (Wednesday, June 27, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H5816]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

            By Miss GONZALEZ-COLON of Puerto Rico:
        H.R. 6246.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution
       ``New States may be admitted by the Congress into this 
     Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the 
     Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by 
     the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, 
     without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States 
     concerned as well as of the Congress.''
       Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution
       ``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.''