[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 10 (Thursday, January 12, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H235]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

           By Ms. FOXX:
       H.R. 330.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States 
     Constitution; whereby the Congress shall have Power to lay 
     and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the 
     Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare 
     of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises 
     shall be uniform throughout the United States. Furthermore, 
     this bill makes specific changes to existing law, in 
     accordance with the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 5, which 
     states that ``No State shall make or enforce any law which 
     shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the 
     United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of 
     life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor 
     deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal 
     protection of the laws.