[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 24 (Thursday, February 14, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H547]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

           By Mr. SMITH of Washington:
       H.R. 683.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is 
     the power of Congress ``to make Rules for the Government and 
     Regulation of the land and naval Forces'' as enumerated in 
     Article I, section 8 of the United States Constitution and in 
     pursuit of the Equal Protection Clause found in section 1 of 
     the Fourteenth Amendment.