[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 30 (Monday, March 4, 2013)]
[House]
[Pages H949-H950]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

            By Mrs. BLACK:
        H.R. 940.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Fourteenth Amendment, Section 5: All persons born or 
     naturalized in the United States, and subject to the 
     jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and 
     the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce 
     any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of 
     citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive 
     any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process 
     of law; nor deny to any

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     person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the 
     laws.