Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act

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Mr. GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I thank those who had the foresight to declare that all persons are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, among them: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

You are not giving up your constitutional rights when you are doing what you can to protect life. I have been to the funerals. I have seen the people who have lost their loved ones to gun violence. At some point we have to do more than contend that privacy trumps the right to life. The person's right to life trumps privacy, especially when no court has said that this is unconstitutional.

Mr. Speaker, that is pure speculation on behalf of some people. I believe that the right to life trumps this right to privacy that they are contending.

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