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        <fullName>Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-17]</fullName>
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        <title>H.R. 5323, Proud to Be an American Citizen Act</title>
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        <description>&lt;p&gt;Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on June 29, 2006&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Proud to Be an American Citizen Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to make funds available to the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services or to approved public or private nonprofit entities to support public ceremonies for administering oaths of allegiance to naturalizing legal immigrants. </p> <p>States that such ceremonies shall: (1) be held on a date that is on or near Independence Day; and (2) include appropriate outreach, ceremonial, and celebratory activities. </p> <p>Specifies: (1) ceremony fund limits; and (2) permitted fund uses.</p>]]></text>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)</b></p> <p>Proud to Be an American Citizen Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to make funds available to the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services or to approved public or private nonprofit entities to support public ceremonies for administering oaths of allegiance to naturalizing legal immigrants. </p> <p>States that such ceremonies shall: (1) be held on a date that is on or near Independence Day; and (2) include appropriate outreach, ceremonial, and celebratory activities. </p> <p>Specifies: (1) ceremony fund limits; and (2) permitted fund uses.</p>]]></text>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Proud to Be an American Citizen Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to make funds available annually to the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services or to approved public or private nonprofit entities to support public ceremonies for administering oaths of allegiance to naturalizing legal immigrants. </p> <p>States that such ceremonies shall: (1) be held on a date that is on or near Independence Day; and (2) include appropriate outreach, ceremonial, and celebratory activities. </p> <p>Specifies: (1) ceremony fund limits ($5,000); and (2) permitted fund uses.</p>]]></text>
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