[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 99 (Tuesday, June 24, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H5725]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

           By Mr. ROSS:
       H.R. 4954.
       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 person 
     within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
       The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate 
     legislation, the provisions of this article.