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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Corporate Welfare Reduction and Job Preservation Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require a 50% reduction in tax benefits for certain large profitable corporations that reduce their employee workforce by 15% or more. Defines &quot;large profitable corporation&quot; as a corporation or partnership that is not defined as a small business concern under the Small Business Act and which has a taxable income that exceeds net operating losses during a specified five-year period.</p><p>Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Export-Import Act of 1945 to require large profitable corporations (as defined by this Act) that reduce their employee workforce by 15% or more to immediately repay loans and forfeit insurance benefits and credit lines provided by such Acts.</p>]]></text>
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