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        <text><![CDATA[ Disabled Workers Empowerment Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) an income-based deduction for the qualified work-related expenses of a handicapped individual; and (2) such deduction to itemizing and nonitemizing taxpayers.]]></text>
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