[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 118 (Friday, August 3, 2012)]
[House]
[Pages H5716-H5717]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

           By Mr. KUCINICH:
       H.R. 6357.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:

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       The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is 
     Article XIV of the Constitution, which enumerates that no 
     United States Citizen can be ``deprived of life, liberty, 
     property, without due process of law.'' The bill will assert 
     Congress' responsibility to defend the rights included in the 
     Bill of Rights of the Constitution.