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        <fullName>Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Domestic Consumer Safety Act of 2005 - Directs the Federal Trade Commission to promulgate rules to assure that businesses in commerce that send employees into people's homes perform adequate and appropriate background checks on those employees.</p> <p>Subjects violators of such rule to a maximum civil penalty of $1 million.</p>]]></text>
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