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        <text>DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4979.</text>
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        <text>Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.</text>
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        <fullName>Rep. Pickering, Charles W. "Chip" [R-MS-3]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Local Community Recovery Act of 2006 - Amends Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act provisions requiring giving preference in the expenditure of federal funds for major disaster or emergency assistance activities to local organizations, firms, or individuals to permit a contract or agreement for such activities to be set aside for award based on a specific geographic area.</p> <p>Requires: (1) any solicitation made by the Corps of Engineers during FY2006 under such provisions to be final, conclusive, and not subject to administrative or judicial review; and (2) any administrative or judicial action or proceeding arising from such solicitation that is pending on this Act's enactment date to be dismissed.</p>]]></text>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Local Community Recovery Act of 2006 - Amends Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act provisions requiring giving preference in the expenditure of federal funds for major disaster or emergency assistance activities to local organizations, firms, or individuals to permit a contract or agreement for such activities to be set aside for award based on a specific geographic area.</p> <p>Urges the Corps of Engineers to promptly implement the Government Accountability Office (GAO) decision in a solicitation dated March 20, 2006, that such Act allows for geographic preferences.</p>]]></text>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on March 28, 2006. The summary of that version is repeated here.)</b></p> <p>Local Community Recovery Act of 2006 - Amends Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act provisions requiring giving preference in the expenditure of federal funds for major disaster or emergency assistance activities to local organizations, firms, or individuals to permit a contract or agreement for such activities to be set aside for award based on a specific geographic area.</p> <p>Urges the Corps of Engineers to promptly implement the Government Accountability Office (GAO) decision in a solicitation dated March 20, 2006, that such Act allows for geographic preferences.</p>]]></text>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on March 28, 2006. The summary of that version is repeated here.)</b></p> <p>Local Community Recovery Act of 2006 - Amends Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act provisions requiring giving preference in the expenditure of federal funds for major disaster or emergency assistance activities to local organizations, firms, or individuals to permit a contract or agreement for such activities to be set aside for award based on a specific geographic area.</p> <p>Urges the Corps of Engineers to promptly implement the Government Accountability Office (GAO) decision in a solicitation dated March 20, 2006, that such Act allows for geographic preferences.</p>]]></text>
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