[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 164 (Wednesday, September 22, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5091]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

           By Mr. CRENSHAW:
       H.R. 5330.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8: ``The Congress shall have 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; but all Duties, Imposts and 
     Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; To 
     borrow Money on the credit of the United States; To regulate 
     Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several states, 
     and with the Indian Tribes; To establish an uniform Rule of 
     Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of 
     Bankruptcies throughout the United States; To coin Money, 
     regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the 
     Standard of Weights and Measures; To provide for the 
     Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin 
     of the United States; To establish Post Offices and post 
     Roads; To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by 
     securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the 
     exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; 
     To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; To 
     define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high 
     Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; To declare 
     War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules 
     concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support 
     Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be 
     for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a 
     Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the 
     land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the 
     Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress 
     Insurrections and repel Invasions; To provide for organizing, 
     arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such 
     Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United 
     States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment 
     of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia 
     according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; To 
     exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over 
     such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by 
     Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, 
     become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and 
     to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the 
     Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same 
     shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, 
     dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And 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.''