[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2678 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2678

   To clarify the law and ensure that children born to United States 
citizens while serving overseas in the military are eligible to become 
                               President.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 28, 2008

Mrs. McCaskill introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To clarify the law and ensure that children born to United States 
citizens while serving overseas in the military are eligible to become 
                               President.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Children of Military Families 
Natural Born Citizen Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF ``NATURAL BORN CITIZEN''.

    Congress finds and declares that the term ``natural born Citizen'' 
in article II, section 1, clause 5 of the Constitution of the United 
States shall include: ``Any person born to any citizen of the United 
States while serving in the active or reserve components of the United 
States Armed Forces''.
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