Short Version -- This is a summary of the important issues covered in this section of the U.S. Constitution. 

• Members of Congress receive a salary.
• Members of Congress cannot be arrested in the House or Senate chambers.
• Members of Congress cannot be prosecuted for things said or written in connection with their duties.
• Members of Congress cannot hold a federal office during their term of office.
• Members of Congress cannot be appointed to a post created during their tenure.
• Members of Congress cannot be appointed to a post whose salary has been increased during their tenure.

Long Version -- This is the text of the Actual U.S. Constitution. 

The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the treasury of the United States. They shall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other place. 

No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time: and no person holding any office under the United States, shall be a member of either House during his continuance in office.

Short Version -- This is a summary of the important issues covered in this section of the U.S Constitution. 

• All tax bills must originate in the House of Representatives.
• The Senate may propose amendments to tax bills.
• Bills passed by both houses must go to the President for approval.
• If the President signs a bill, it becomes law.
• If the President does not approve of a bill, he sends it back to Congress.
• If two-thirds of both houses approve the bill, it passes over the President's veto.
• If the President does not return the bill to Congress within 10 days (excluding Sundays), it automatically becomes law.
• If Congress adjourns before 10 days pass, an unsigned bill is effectively vetoed.
• Notes: Called a "Pocket Veto"
• All orders, resolutions or votes requiring the agreement of both houses must be submitted for the President's approval.
• If the President does not approve of any order, resolution or vote requiring the agreement of both houses, a two-thirds vote of the Senate and the House is needed to override his disapproval.

Long Version -- This is the text of the Actual U.S. Constitution. 

All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills. 

Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a law. But in all such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each House respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law. 

Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.

Short Version -- This is a summary of the important issues covered in this section of the U.S. Constitution. 

• Congress can lay and collect taxes
• Congress can borrow money
• Congress can regulate national and international trade
• Congress can establish rules for naturalization and bankruptcy laws
• Congress can coin money
• Congress can set the standard for weights and measures
• Congress can punish counterfeiters
• Congress can establish post offices and post roads
• Congress can grant patents to inventors and copyrights to authors
• Congress can set up federal courts
• Congress can punish piracy and crimes committed at sea
• Congress can declare war
• Congress can raise and upport armies
• Congress can provide and maintain a navy
• Congress can make rules for the government of land and sea forces
• Congress can call on the militia (National Guard) to put down rebellion and invasion and to enforce the laws
• Congress can help organize, arm, and discipline the militia
• Congress can exercise control over the District of Columbia and over other federal property
• Congress can make all laws necessary for carrying out its Constitutional powers

Long Version -- This is the text of the Actual U.S. Constitution. 

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;

• 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 a 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;
• To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, 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, dockyards, 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.

Short Version -- This is a summary of the important issues covered in this section of the U.S. Constitution. 

Do the following:

• The Congress is expressly forbidden to prohibit the importation of slaves or migration before 1808
• The Congress is expressly forbidden to suspend habeas corpus except during a rebellion or invasion
• The Congress is expressly forbidden to pass a bill of attainder or ex post facto law
• The Congress is expressly forbidden to pass a head tax unless it is in proportion to the census
• The Congress is expressly forbidden to lay a tax or duty on articles exported from any state
• The Congress is expressly forbidden to make laws concerning trade that favor one state over another
• The Congress is expressly forbidden to require ships going from one state to another to pay taxes
• The Congress is expressly forbidden to spend government money without the consent of Congress
• The Congress is expressly forbidden to grant titles of nobility or permit federal officials to accept gifts or titles without Congress's consent

Long Version -- This is the text of the Actual U.S. Constitution. 

The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person. 

The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.

No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. 

No capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken. 

No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state. 

No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one state, be obliged to enter, clear or pay duties in another. 

No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. 

No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.