[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13854]
[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. DeSANTIS:
       H.R. 3737.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 (The President . . . 
     ``shall nominate, and 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, who Appointments are not 
     herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established 
     by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of 
     such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the 
     President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of 
     Departments.''), Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 (``The 
     Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, 
     Imposes, and Excises, to pay the debts and provide for the 
     common Defense and general Welfare of the United States. . . 
     .''), and 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 this Constitution in the 
     Government of the United States, or in any Department or 
     Officer thereof.'').
            By Mr. McGOVERN:
       H.R. 3738.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8
            By Mr. JODY B. HICE of Georgia:
       H.R. 3739.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Clause 18 of Section 8 of Article I: 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 this 
     Government of the United States or in any Department or 
     Officer thereof.
            By Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts:
       H.R. 3740.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, United States Constitution
            By Mr. MEEKS:
       H.R. 3741.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The necessary and proper clause of the Constitution and the 
     interstate commerce clause
            By Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois:
       H.R. 3742.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I of the Constitution and its subsequent amendments 
     and further clarified and interpreted by the Supreme Court of 
     the United States
            By Ms. VELAZQUEZ:
       H.R. 3743.
       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; . . .''
            By Mr. BISHOP of Utah:
       H.R. 3744.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, clause 3
            By Mrs. LAWRENCE:
       H.R. 3745.
       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 Officer thereof.''
            By Mr. DUFFY:
       H.R. 3746.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, section 8, clause 1 (relating to the general 
     welfare of the United States); and Article I, section 8, 
     clause 3 (relating to the power to regulate interstate 
     commerce).
            By Mr. GOTTHEIMER:
       H.R. 3747.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       section 8 of article I of the Constitution.
            By Mr. HIGGINS of New York:
       H.R. 3748.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 allows Congress to make all 
     laws ``which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into 
     execution'' any ``other'' powers vested by the Constitution 
     in the Government of the United States.
            By Mr. LAWSON of Florida:
       H.R. 3749.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8: To make all Laws which shall be 
     necessary and proper for carying 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 Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM of New Mexico:
       H.R. 3750.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article One of the United States Constitution, located at 
     section 8, clause 18.
            By Mr. MEADOWS:
       H.R. 3751.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 4
            By Mr. NORCROSS:
       H.R. 3752.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Clause 8
            By Ms. NORTON:
       H.R. 3753.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       section 1 of article I, and clause 18, section 8 of article 
     I of the Constitution.

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