[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5204-5206]
[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 Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York:
       H.R. 19.
       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; 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. BISHOP of Utah:
       H.R. 1800.

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       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution provides 
     Congress with the authority and responsibility to ``provide 
     for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United 
     States,'' and to ``promote progress of Science.'' This 
     measure will help ensure that public lands already in use for 
     important scientific and defense-based research will remain 
     available into the future to support those important public 
     purposes.
            By Mr. TIPTON:
       H.R. 1801.
       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 Ms. ESTY:
       H.R. 1802.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       clause 18 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution.
            By Mr. DUNN:
       H.R. 1803.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution of 
     United States of America
            By Mr. BARR:
       H.R. 1804.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 1
            By Mr. BARR:
       H.R. 1805.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 1
            By Mr. BARR:
       H.R. 1806.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 1
           By Mr. GOHMERT:
       H.R. 1807.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 3, providing Congress the 
     authority to regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations, and 
     among the Several States, and with Indian Tribes
            By Mr. GUTHRIE:
       H.R. 1808.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, section 8 of the Constitution of the United 
     States
            By Mr. LEWIS of Minnesota:
       H.R. 1809.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, section 8 of the Constitution of the United 
     States
            By Mr. CURBELO of Florida:
       H.R. 1810.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1
            By Mr. TAYLOR:
       H.R. 1811.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, 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; and 
     Offenses 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. SCHNEIDER:
       H.R. 1812.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8
            By Mr. ROGERS of Alabama:
       H.R. 1813.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8 gives Congress the express authority 
     to regulate commerce with foreign nations and provide for the 
     common defense.
            By Mr. KINZINGER:
       H.R. 1814.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution
            By Mr. ESPAILLAT:
       H.R. 1815.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article One of the United States Constitution, 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
       Or
       Article One of the United States Constitution, 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. YOUNG of Alaska:
       H.R. 1816.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8
            By Mr. DeFAZIO:
       H.R. 1817.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 (relating to the power to 
     make all laws necessary and proper / for carrying out the 
     powers vested in Congress)
            By Mr. DENHAM:
       H.R. 1818.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States 
     Constitution: ``The Congress shall have the power . . . To 
     regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several 
     states, and with the Indian tribes;''
            By Mr. CARTWRIGHT:
       H.R. 1819.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 (relating to the power of 
     Congress to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among 
     the several States, and with Indian Tribes.) [Page H3967]
           By Mr. BLUMENAUER:
       H.R. 1820.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8
           By Mr. BARTON:
       H.R. 1821.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1 Section 8
           By Mrs. BLACKBURN:
       H.R. 1822.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18
           By Mr. BLUMENAUER:
       H.R. 1823.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8
           By Mr. BLUMENAUER:
       H.R. 1824.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8
           By Mr. COLLINS of New York:
       H.R. 1825.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution
           By Mr. CONNOLLY:
       H.R. 1826.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8
           By Mr. DELANEY:
       H.R. 1827.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:

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       Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution
            By Ms. JENKINS of Kansas:
       H.R. 1828.
       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 Defense and general Welfare of the United States; 
     but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform 
     throughout the United States.
       Article I, Section 9:
       No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in 
     Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.
            By Mr. KILMER:
       H.R. 1829.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
            By Mr. LEWIS of Georgia:
       H.R. 1830.
       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 Mr. MacARTHUR:
       H.R. 1831.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United 
     States provides that:
       ``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. 
     . . .''
            By Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York:
       H.R. 1832.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8
            By Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York:
       H.R. 1833.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, clause 3
            By Mrs. McMORRIS RODGERS:
       H.R. 1834.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The Constitutional authority in which this bill rests is 
     the power of the Congress to regulate Commerce as enumerated 
     by Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 as applied to providing for 
     the general welfare of the United States through the 
     administration of the Medicare program under Title 18 if the 
     Social Security Act.
            By Mr. MOONEY of West Virginia:
       H.R. 1835.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       This legislation is authorized by Article I, Section 8 of 
     the Constitution: ``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.''
            By Mr. NADLER:
       H.R. 1836.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States 
     Constitution; Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United 
     States Constitution; and Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of 
     the United States Constitution.
            By Mr. NORCROSS:
       H.R. 1837.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8
            By Mr. NUNES:
       H.R. 1838.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Clause 1 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution of 
     the United States.
            By Mr. O'ROURKE:
       H.R. 1839.
       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 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. PAULSEN:
       H.R. 1840.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I Section VIII which provides Congress the 
     authority to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, excises, 
     to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and 
     general welfare of the United States.
            By Mr. POLIS:
       H.R. 1841.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution 
     (relating to the general welfare of the United States); and 
     Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution 
     (relating to the power to regulate interstate commerce).
           By Mr. RATCLIFFE:
       H.R. 1842.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 and 3
            By Mr. ROSKAM:
       H.R. 1843.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article 1 of the U.S. 
     Constitution, providing, in relevant part, that ``[t]he 
     Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, 
     duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for 
     the common defense and general welfare of the United 
     States.''
            By Mr. RUIZ:
       H.R. 1844.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       clause 18 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution
            By Mr. SMUCKER:
       H.R. 1845.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Clause 3 Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution
            By Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ:
       H.R. 1846.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
            By Mr. YOHO:
       H.R. 1847.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Clause 3, Section 8 of Article 1 of the United States 
     Constitution which reads: ``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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