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        <text>Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.</text>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Indian Country Educational Empowerment Zone Act -Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to carry out a program of repaying the student loans for any borrower who obtains employment in Indian country.</p>]]></text>
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        <title>To facilitate economic growth and development and to promote Tribal sovereignty, by encouraging a dramatic increase in the number of individuals with higher education degrees working within and for Indian Country.</title>
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