[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 13 (Tuesday, January 22, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H997]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

            By Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania:
        H.R. 696.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, section 8 of the U. S. Constitution grants 
     Congress the power to ``lay and collect Taxes, Duties, 
     Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the 
     common defense and general Welfare of the United States.''