[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 192-193]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY STATEMENT

  Pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives, the following statements are submitted regarding the 
specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the 
accompanying bill or joint resolution.

           By Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California:
       H.R. 196.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 3.
           By Mr. AKIN:
       H.R. 197.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution 
     provides, ``. . . nor shall private property be taken for 
     public use, without just compensation.'' The United States 
     Constitution, Article I, Sec. 8, cl. 1, vests Congress with 
     the exclusive power ``to pay the Debts . . . of the United 
     States.'' The Constitution, thus, grants to Congress the 
     exclusive power and authority to define the jurisdiction of 
     the Court of Federal Claims and ``the power to waive the res 
     judicata effect of a prior judgment entered in the 
     Government's favor on a claim against the United States. . . 
     . Congress may recognize its obligation to pay a moral debt 
     not only by direct appropriation, but also by waiving an 
     otherwise valid defense to a legal claim against the United 
     States'' United States v. Sioux Nation, 448 U.S. 371, 397 
     (1980) citing, Cherokee Nation v. United States, 270 U.S. 476 
     (1926) and United States v. Realty, Co. 163 U.S. 427 (1896).
           By Mr. GRIMM:
       H.R. 198.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 12/13/14.
           By Mrs. CAPITO:
       H.R. 199.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3--To regulate Commerce with 
     foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the 
     Indian Tribes; and Article 1, Section 8, Clause 14--To make 
     Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval 
     Forces.
           By Mr. BACA:
       H.R. 200.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 of the U.S. Constitution.
           By Mr. GALLEGLY:
       H.R. 201.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution, 
     amending conditional grants-in-aid under the spending for the 
     general welfare.
           By Mr. GALLEGLY:
       H.R. 202.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Clause 18 of Section 8, Article I of the Constitution.
           By Mr. GALLEGLY:
       H.R. 203.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Clause 1 of Section 8, Article I of the Constitution.
           By Ms. GIFFORDS:
       H.R. 204.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Congress is required by Article I, Section 6, of the 
     Constitution to determine its own pay. This legislation is 
     also consistent with the Twenty-Seventh Amendment of the 
     Constitution.
           By Mr. HEINRICH:
       H.R. 205.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
           By Mr. NEUGEBAUER:
       H.R. 206.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 1--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.
       Sixteenth Amendment--The Congress shall have power to lay 
     and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, 
     without apportionment among the several States, and without 
     regard to any census or enumeration.
           By Mr. PETRI:
       H.R. 207.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution.
           By Mr. ROONEY:
       H.R. 208.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, ``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''.
           By Ms. SPEIER:
       H.R. 209.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to 
     Congress under Article 1, Section 8 of the United States 
     Constitution.
           By Ms. SPEIER:
       H.R. 210.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to 
     Congress under Article 1, Section 8 of the United States 
     Constitution.
           By Mr. HUNTER:
       H.R. 211.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The Constitutional authority for this legislation is found 
     in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4 which explicitly provides 
     Congress the power to ``establish an uniform Rule of 
     Naturalization.''
           By Mr. CARTER:
       H.J. Res. 9.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to 
     Congress under Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United 
     States Constitution.
           By Mr. CUELLAR:
       H.J. Res. 10.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Under Article 5 of the United States Constitution, seen 
     below, this legislation falls within Congress's 
     Constitutional Authority:
       Article 5--The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses 
     shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this 
     Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of 
     two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for 
     proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid 
     to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, 
     when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the 
     several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, 
     as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed 
     by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made 
     prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall 
     in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the 
     Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, 
     without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage 
     in the Senate.

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