The
Enumerated Powers Act is a proposed bill in the
United States House of Representatives which requires legislation passed by
Congress cite those provisions of the
Constitution that give them the power to pass such legislation. The bill has been proposed by Congressman
John Shadegg in every Congress since the
104th, and frequently draws many co-sponsors. It has never been passed. However, at the beginning of the
105th Congress, significant portions of the bill were adopted into House rules.