[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6241-6243]
[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 Mr. POLIS:
       H.R. 1532.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 3
       The Congress shall have Power to regulate Commerce with 
     foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the 
     Indian Tribes.
           By Mr. TIBERI:
       H.R. 1533.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       This bill makes changes to existing law relating to Article 
     1, Section 7 which provides that ``All bills for raising 
     Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.''
           By Mr. KIND:
       H.R. 1534.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8.
           By Mr. FARENTHOLD:
       H.R. 1535.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 3.
           By Mr. CHAFFETZ:
       H.R. 1536.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18: 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.
           By Mr. NADLER:
       H.R. 1537.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clauses 4 and 18.
           By Mr. PETRI:
       H.R. 1538.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 which, in part, states: The 
     Congress shall have
       Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and 
     Excises, . . .
       and the Sixteenth Amendment which states: 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. STIVERS:
       H.R. 1539.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       clause 3 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution
           By Mr. McKEON:
       H.R. 1540.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is 
     the power of Congress to ``provide for the common defense,'' 
     ``raise and support armies,'' and ``provide and maintain a 
     navy,'' as enumerated in Article I, Section 8 of the United 
     States Constitution.
           By Mr. CAMPBELL:
       H.R. 1541.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Clause 1 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution of 
     the United States.
           By Mr. COHEN:
       H.R. 1542.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, section 8, clause 3 (relating to the power to 
     interstate commerce).
           By Mr. COURTNEY:
       H.R. 1543.
       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.
           By Mr. CRITZ:
       H.R. 1544.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Section 8 of Article 1 of the Constitution.
           By Mr. FLORES:
       H.R. 1545.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States 
     Constitution.
           By Mr. GERLACH:
       H.R. 1546.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The Congress enacts this bill pursuant to Clause 7 of 
     Section 9 of Article I of the United States Constitution.
           By Mr. GRIJALVA:
       H.R. 1547.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       U.S. Const. art. I, Sec. Sec. 1 and 8.
           By Mr. GRIJALVA:
       H.R. 1548.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       U.S. Const. art., I, Sec. Sec. 1 and 8.
           By Mr. GRIMM:
       H.R. 1549.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United 
     States Constitution allows the Congress to levy, or repeal, 
     an income tax without apportioning it among the states or 
     basing it on Census results.
           By Mr. PIERLUISI:
       H.R. 1550.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is 
     the power of the Congress to provide for the general welfare 
     of the United States, as enumerated in Article I, Section 8, 
     Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, and to make all 
     laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into 
     execution such power as enumerated in Article I, Section 8, 
     Clause 18 of the Constitution.
           By Mr. HUNTER:
       H.R. 1551.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 of the U.S. Constitution 
     sets for the power of appropriations states that ``No Money 
     shall be drawn from the Treasury but in Consequence of 
     Appropriations made by Law. . . .'' In addition, Article I, 
     Section 8, Clause 1 states that ``The Congress shall have the 
     Power . . . to pay the Debts and provide for the common 
     Defence and general Welfare of the United States. . . .''
       Also, Article I, section 8 of the United States 
     Constitution (clauses 12, 13, 14, 16, and 18), which grants 
     Congress the power to raise and support an Army; to provide 
     and maintain a Navy; to make rules for the government and 
     regulation of the land and naval forces; to provide for 
     organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia; and to make 
     all laws necessary and proper for carrying out the foregoing 
     powers.
           By Mr. ISRAEL:
        H.R. 1552.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:

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       Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States 
     Constitution.
            By Mr. JOHNSON of Illinois:
        H.R. 1553.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I Section 8 providing for the general Welfare of 
     the United States.
            By Mrs. LOWEY:
        H.R. 1554.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I of the Constitution
            By Mrs. LOWEY:
        H.R. 1555.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I of the Constitution
            By Mr. LUJAN:
        H.R. 1556.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The United States Constitution specifically mentions the 
     relationship between the United States federal government and 
     Native American tribes three times:
       Article I, Section 2, Clause 3
       Article I, Section 8
       The Fourteenth Amendment, Section 2
           By Mrs. MALONEY:
        H.R. 1557.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4, which reads: To establish a 
     uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the 
     subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States
            By Mr. MILLER of Florida:
        H.R. 1558.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Amendment II to The Constitution of the United States
            By Ms. NORTON:
       H.R. 1559.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Clauses 1, and 18 of section 8 of article I, and clause 2 
     of section 3 of article IV of the Constitution.
           By Mr. REYES:
       H.R. 1560.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The Congress enacts this bill pursuant to Article I, 
     Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
       Text:
       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;
       Clause 2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United 
     States;
       Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and 
     among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
       Clause 4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, 
     and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout 
     the United States;
       Clause 5: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of 
     foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
       Clause 6: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting 
     the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
       Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
       Clause 8: 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;
       Clause 9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme 
     Court;
       Clause 10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies 
     committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of 
     Nations;
       Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and 
     Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and 
     Water;
       Clause 12: To raise and support Armies, but no 
     Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term 
     than two Years;
       Clause 13: To provide and maintain a Navy;
       Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation 
     of the land and naval Forces;
       Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to 
     execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and 
     repel Invasions;
       Clause 16: 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;
       Clause 17: 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
       Clause 18: 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.
           By Mr. REYES:
       H.R. 1561.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The Congress enacts this bill pursuant to Article I, 
     Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
       Text:
       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;
       Clause 2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United 
     States;
       Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and 
     among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
       Clause 4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, 
     and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout 
     the United States;
       Clause 5: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of 
     foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
       Clause 6: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting 
     the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
       Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
       Clause 8: 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;
       Clause 9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme 
     Court;
       Clause 10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies 
     committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of 
     Nations;
       Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and 
     Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and 
     Water;
       Clause 12: To raise and support Armies, but no 
     Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term 
     than two Years;
       Clause 13: To provide and maintain a Navy;
       Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation 
     of the land and naval Forces;
       Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to 
     execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and 
     repel Invasions;
       Clause 16: 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;
       Clause 17: 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
       Clause 18: 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.
           By Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD:
       H.R. 1562.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 1.
           By Mr. SCHOCK:
       H.R. 1563.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is 
     the power of Congress as stated in Article I, Section 8, and 
     Amendment X of the United States Constitution.
           By Mr. SHERMAN:
       H.R. 1564.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Clause 18 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution.
           By Mr. WALZ of Minnesota:
       H.R. 1565.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       This bill is enacted pursuant to Section 8 of Article I of 
     the United States Constitution.
           By Mr. WALZ of Minnesota:
        H.R. 1566.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       This bill is enacted pursuant to Section 8 of Article I of 
     the United States Constitution.
            By Ms. WATERS:
        H.R. 1567.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution of the 
     United States
           By Ms. WOOLSEY:
        H.R. 1568.

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        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I
           Mr. GUTIERREZ:
       H.R. 1569.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 and Amendment I, Clause 3 of 
     the Constitution.

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