[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6232]
[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. COURTNEY:
        H.R. 1827.
        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. COURTNEY:
        H.R. 1828.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8: 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. . . .
            By Mrs. CAPITO:
        H.R. 1829.
        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 of the United States 
     Constitution, specifically Clause 3 (related to regulation of 
     Commerce among the States).
            By Mrs. CAPITO:
        H.R. 1830.
        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 1 and Article I Section 8 
     Clause 1 of the Constitution.
            By Mr. BENTIVOLIO:
        H.R. 1831.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       (1) Article I, section 5, clauses 2 and 3 to determine the 
     rules and to keep a journal of its proceedings, respectively;
       (2) Article I, section 7, clause 2 to ensure that bills 
     that become law have been actually passed by, not just passed 
     through, each House of Congress; and
       (3) Article I, section 8, clause 18, which authorizes 
     Congress to make all laws that are necessary and proper for 
     carrying into execution the rules of each House.
       Furthermore, the provision of this Act under which any 
     person who is aggrieved by the enforcement of any law enacted 
     either in violation of the rules of proceedings of either 
     House of Congress, or by the suspension of such rules, as 
     prescribed herein, shall have standing in a court of law, is 
     pursuant to article III, section 2 of the Constitution of the 
     United States.
            By Mr. BISHOP of New York:
        H.R. 1832.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8
            By Ms. DeLAURO:
        H.R. 1833.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Fourteenth Amendment, Section 5
       Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United 
     States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens 
     of the United States and the State wherein they reside. 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.
       * * * *
       Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by 
     appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
            By Mr. GRIJALVA:
        H.R. 1834.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article IV, Section 3 of the United States Constitution.
            By Mrs. LOWEY:
        H.R. 1835.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I.
            By Mrs. NOEM:
        H.R. 1836.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3.
            By Mr. PALLONE:
        H.R. 1837.
        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 Goverment of the United States, or in any 
     Department or Officer thereof.
            By Mr. STIVERS:
        H.R. 1838.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, section 8, Clause I of the United States 
     Constitution
            By Mr. TIPTON:
        H.R. 1839.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I. Section 8 of the United States Constitution: to 
     make rules for the government and regulation of land.
            By Ms. TSONGAS:
        H.R. 1840.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Amendment XVI to the United States Constitution.
            By Mr. WELCH:
        H.R. 1841.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, 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 this Constitution in the 
     Government of the United States, or in any Department or 
     Officer thereof.

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