[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 7977-7978]
[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. HASTINGS of Washington:
       H.R. 2231.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to Article IV, Section 3 of the Constitution.
           By Mr. GRAVES of Missouri:
       H.R. 2232.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Art. I, Sec. 8, cls. 1, 3, and 18 and Art. IV, Sec. 3, cl. 
     2 of the Constitution of the United States.
           By Mr. BILIRAKIS:
       H.R. 2233.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The constitutional authority to lay and collect Taxes, 
     Duties, Imposts and Excises as enumerated in Article I, 
     Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution.
           By Mr. BISHOP of New York:
       H.R. 2234. Congress has the power to enact this legislation 
     pursuant to the following:
       Article 1, Sec. 8, Clause 1
       Article 1, Sec. 8, Clause 3
       Article 1, Sec. 8, Clause 18
           By Mr. CAPUANO:
        H.R. 2235.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The Congress enacts this bill pursuant to Article I, 
     Section 8, Clause 1; and Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of 
     the United States Constitution.
           By Mr. CHABOT:
       H.R. 2236.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following: Article I, Section 8,: ``To promote the 
     Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited 
     Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Rights to their 
     respective Writings and Discoveries.''
           By Ms. CHU:
       H.R. 2237.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Pursuant to Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 and Article 1, 
     Section 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution of the United States 
     of America, the authority to enact this legislation rests 
     with the Congress.

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           By Mr. COSTA:
       H.R. 2238.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause I
           By Mr. COTTON:
       H.R. 2239.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Clause 9 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution.
            By Mr. BLUMENAUER:
       H.R. 2240.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The Constitution of the United States provides clear 
     authority for Congress to pass tax legislation. Article I of 
     the Constitution, in detailing Congressional authority, 
     provides that ``Congress shall have Power to lay and collect 
     Taxes. . .'' (Section 8, Clause 1). This legislation is 
     introduced pursuant to that grant of authority.
           By Mr. DIAZ-BALART:
       H.R. 2241.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, of the United States Constitution.
           By Mr. ENGEL:
       H.R. 2242.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 1 of the Constitution.
           By Mr. ENYART:
       H.R. 2243.
       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.
           By Mr. GRIFFIN of Arkansas:
       H.R. 2244.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       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. LANKFORD:
       H.R. 2245.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 and 3 and implied powers to 
     not act in these areas.
           By Mr. BEN RAY LUJAN of New Mexico:
       H.R. 2246.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8
           By Mrs. LUMMIS:
       H.R. 2247.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: ``To regulate Commerce with 
     foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the 
     Indian Tribes.''
           By Mr. MARKEY:
       H.R. 2248.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3
           By Mr. MORAN:
       H.R. 2249.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 14
       This Bill is enacted pursuant to Article I, Section 8 of 
     the United States Constitution, which provides Congress with 
     the power to make rules for the government and regulation of 
     the land and naval forces.
           By Mr. OWENS:
       H.R. 2250.
       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.
           By Mr. PETERSON:
       H.R. 2251.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 and Article 1, Section 8, 
     Clause 17 of the Constitution.
       The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all 
     needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or 
     other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in 
     this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any 
     Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
           By Mr. POLIS:
       H.R. 2252.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 1, All legislative Powers herein granted 
     shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which 
     shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
           By Mr. SCHOCK:
       H.R. 2253.
       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 7 and 
     Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
           By Ms. SEWELL of Alabama:
       H.R. 2254.
       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; 
     but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform 
     throughout the United States;
       ``To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
       ``To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the 
     several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
       ``To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and 
     uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the 
     United States;
       ``To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof and of foreign 
     Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
       ``To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the 
     Securities and current Coin of the United States;
       ``To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
       ``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;
       ``To constitute Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
       ``To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on 
     the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
       ``To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and 
     make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
       ``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;
       ``To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the 
     land and naval Forces;
       ``To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the 
     Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel 
     Invasions;
       ``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;
       ``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
       ``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. VAN HOLLEN:
       H.R. 2255.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       This bill is enacted pursuant to Clause 1 of Section 8 of 
     Article I of the United States Constitution.
           By Mr. WALZ:
       H.R. 2256.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Section 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution.
           By Ms. WILSON of Florida:
       H.R. 2257.
       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.

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