[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 1484-1485]
[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. SMITH of Washington:
       H.R. 753.
       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 ``to provide for the common Defense'', 
     ``to raise and support Armies'', ``to provide and maintain a 
     Navy''' and ``to make Rules for the Government and Regulation 
     of the land and naval Forces'' as enumerated in Article I, 
     section 8 of the United States Constitution.
            By Mr. STEWART:
       H.R. 754.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article one, Section eight.
            By Mr. SANFORD:
       H.R. 755.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution
            By Mr. CHAFFETZ:
       H.R. 756.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Art. I, Sec. 8
       To establish Post Offices and post Roads.
            By Mr. CONNOLLY:
       H.R. 757.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The ``necessary and proper'' clause of Article I, Section 8 
     of the United States Constitution
            By Mr. SCHNEIDER:
       H.R. 758.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8.
            By Mr. ELLISON:
       H.R. 759.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to Article I, Section 8, Clause 1.
            By Mr. LYNCH:
       H.R. 760.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 and Article I, Section 8, 
     Clause 18
            By Mr. RENACCI:
       H.R. 761.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, 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.
       Article 1, 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 Officer thereof.
       Article 1, Section 5, Clause 2: Each House may determine 
     the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for 
     disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two 
     thirds, expel a Member.
            By Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN:
       H.R. 762.

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       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8
            By Mr. POLIQUIN:
       H.R. 763.
       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.
            By Ms. VELAZQUEZ:
       H.R. 764.
       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 Ms. VELAZQUEZ:
       H.R. 765.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 1
       The Congress shall have Power to . . . provide for the . . 
     . general Welfare of 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, and with 
     the Indian Tribes.
            By Ms. VELAZQUEZ:
       H.R. 766.
       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.
            By Mr. COHEN:
       H.R. 767.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8
            By Mr. DIAZ-BALART:
       H.R. 768.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution
            By Ms. GRANGER:
       H.R. 769.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States 
     Constitution that 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.
            By Mr. HIMES:
       H.R. 770.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 5: ``To coin Money, regulate 
     the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard 
     of Weights and Measures;''
            By Ms. LEE:
       H.R. 771.
       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 of the United States Constitution 
     and its subsequent amendments, and further clarified and 
     interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States.
            By Mrs. McMORRIS RODGERS:
       H.R. 772.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 as applied to providing for 
     the general welfare of the United States through the 
     administration of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
            By Ms. MENG:
       H.R. 773.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
            By Ms. MENG:
       H.R. 774.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
            By Mr. MOOLENAAR:
       H.R. 775.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the United States 
     Constitution and Amendment XVI of the United States 
     Constitution.
            By Mr. SENSENBRENNER:
       H.R. 776.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 3
            By Mr. SENSENBRENNER:
       H.R. 777.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 3
            By Mr. WELCH:
       H.R. 778.
       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.
            By Mr. WITTMAN:
       H.R. 779.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The constitutional authority on which this bill rests in 
     the preamble of the Constitution providing for the ``common 
     defense'' and in the powers governing national security in 
     Article I, Section 8.
            By Ms. PELOSI:
       H.R. 780.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, section 8, clause 4 of the Constitution provides 
     that Congress shall have power to ``establish an uniform Rule 
     of Naturalization''. The Supreme Court has long found that 
     this provision of the Constitution grants Congress plenary 
     power over immigration policy. As the Court found in Galvan 
     v. Press, 347 U.S. 522, 531 (1954), ``that the formulation of 
     policies [pertaining to the entry of aliens and their right 
     to remain here] is entrusted exclusively to Congress has 
     become about as firmly imbedded in the legislative and 
     judicial tissues of our body politic as any aspect of our 
     government.'' And, as the Court found in Kleindienst v. 
     Mandel, 408 U.S. 753, 766 (1972) (quoting Boutilier v. INS, 
     387 U.S. 118, 123 (1967)), ``[t]he Court without exception 
     has sustained Congress' `plenary power to make rules for the 
     admission of aliens and to exclude those who possess those 
     characteristics which Congress has forbidden.'''
            By Mr. LABRADOR:
       H.J. Res. 50.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 5: 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;
            By Mr. ROE of Tennessee:
       H.J. Res. 51.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The repeal of this provision is consistent with the powers 
     that are reserved to the States and to the people as 
     expressed in Amendment X to the United States Constitution.
            By Mr. NEWHOUSE:
       H.J. Res. 52.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States 
     Constitution
            By Ms. SPEIER:
       H.J. Res. 53.
       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 1, Section 8 of the United States 
     Constitution.
            By Mr. ROKITA:
       H.J. Res. 54.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section VIII, Clause I
       By Mr. STEWART:
       H.J. Res. 55.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18
       To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for 
     carrying in Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other 
     Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the 
     United State, or in any Department or Officer therof.

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