[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13460]
[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. REYES:
       H.R. 6359.
       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. TIERNEY:
       H.R. 6360:
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 18
       The Congress shall have Power * * * To make all Laws which 
     shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the 
     foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by the 
     Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in 
     any Department or Officer thereof.

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