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        <text><![CDATA[ Veterans Medical Research Assistance Voluntary Option Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a taxpayer to designate all or part of an income tax overpayment for Department of Veterans Affairs medical research. States that any such amount shall be treated as: (1) a refund to the taxpayer; and (2) a contribution to the United States. <p>Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical and Prosthetic Research Gift Fund.]]></text>
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        <title>To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to designate that part or all of any income tax refund be paid over for use in medical research conducted through the Department of Veterans Affairs.</title>
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