[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2445]
[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. THOMPSON of California:
       H.R. 3986.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 & 18
            By Mr. FARENTHOLD:
       H.R. 3987.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Amendment XVI.
            By Mr. HUFFMAN:
       H.R. 3988.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, 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 Office thereof.
            By Mr. ROSS:
       H.R. 3989.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8
            By Ms. SHEA-PORTER:
       H.R. 3990.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8
            By Mr. SMITH of Nebraska:
       H.R. 3991.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 1
            By Mr. MULVANEY:
       H.J. Res. 108.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article V: ``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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