[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 7125-7126]
[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 Mississippi:
       H.R. 2390.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The U.S. Constitution including Article 1, Section 8.
            By Mr. CUMMINGS:
       H.R. 2391.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 (relating to the power of 
     Congress to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among 
     the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.)
           By Mr. CULBERSON:
       H.R. 2392.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the 
     United States.
            By Mr. CONAWAY:
       H.R. 2393.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3, Congress has the 
     authority to regulate foreign and interstate commerce.
            By Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania:
       H.R. 2394.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Pursuant to Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3, Congress has 
     the authority to regulate foreign and interstate commerce.
            By Mr. CHAFFETZ:
       H.R. 2395.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:

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       Article I, Section 8.
            By Mrs. BLACKBURN:
       H.R. 2396.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3
            By Mr. COLE:
       H.R. 2397.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       This bill is enacted pursuant to Article I, Section 8 which 
     allows Congress to regulate trade with foreign Nations, and 
     among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes
            By Mr. GROTHMAN:
       H.R. 2398.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 which, in part, states: The 
     Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, 
     Imposts and Excises, . . . and the Sixteenth Amendment which 
     states: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect 
     taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without 
     apportionment among the several States, and without regard to 
     any census or enumeration.
            By Mr. LATTA:
       H.R. 2399.
       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;
       Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2
       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
       Amendment II
       A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security 
     of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear 
     Arms, shall not be infringed.
            By Mr. ROSKAM:
       H.R. 2400.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       (a) Article I, Section 1, to exercise the legislative 
     powers vested in Congress as granted in the Constitution; and
       (b) Article I, Section 8, Clause 18, which gives Congress 
     the authority ``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''; and
       (c) Article I, Section 9, Clause 7, which states that ``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''; and
       (d) Article II, Section 2, Clause 2, which states that the 
     President, ``by and with the Advice and Consent of the 
     Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and 
     Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers 
     of the United States . . .''
            By Mr. LATTA:
       H.R. 2401.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2
       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
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 3
       The Congress shall have Power to regulate Commerce with 
     foreign Nations and among the several States
            By Ms. LOFGREN:
       H.R. 2402.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8
           By Mr. McKINLEY:
       H.R. 2403.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       According to Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the 
     Constitution: The Congress shall have power to enact this 
     legislation to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and 
     among several states, and with the Indian tribes.
            By Mr. PAULSEN:
       H.R. 2404.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution
            By Mr. AMASH:
       H.J. Res. 54.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       This resolution is enacted pursuant to the powers conferred 
     by the United States Constitution upon Congress by Article V. 
     which provides that ``The Congress, whenever two thirds of 
     both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments 
     to this Constitution .  .  . which 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 .  .  .''

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