[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 16072-16073]
[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. SHUSTER:
        H.R. 3300.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, 
     specifically Clause 1 (relating to providing for the common 
     defense and general welfare of the United States) and Clause 
     18 (relating to the power to make all laws necessary and 
     proper for carrying out the powers vested in Congress) and 
     Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 (relating to interstate 
     compacts).
            By Mr. UPTON:
        H.R. 3301.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
        Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States 
     Constitution.
            By Mr. MILLER of Florida:
        H.R. 3302.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The United States Constitution, Article I Section 8
            By Mrs. BLACKBURN:
        H.R. 3303.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States 
     Constitution.
            By Mr. DEUTCH:
        H.R. 3304.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 14
       The Congress shall have the power ``to make rules for the 
     government and regulation of the land and naval forces.''
            By Mr. FITZPATRICK:
        H.R. 3305.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, (``The Congress shall have power 
     to... coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign 
     coin, and fix the standard of eights and measures.''
            By Mr. HARPER:
        H.R. 3306.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Clause 2 of Section 3 of Article IV of the Constitution
            By Mr. ISRAEL:
        H.R. 3307.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8
            By Mr. LONG:
        H.R. 3308.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:

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       Article I, Section 8--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.
       Article I, Section 9--No Money shall be drawn from the 
     Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; 
     and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and 
     Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time 
     to time.
           By Ms. JENKINS:
        H.J. Res. 97.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article V of the Constitution.
       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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