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        <fullName>Rep. Hensarling, Jeb [R-TX-5]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Veterans Community Health Enhancement Act of 2008 - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer funds appropriated for FY2009 for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts to the Department of Veterans Affairs for the enhancement of services for veterans at community-based outpatient clinics.</p>]]></text>
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    <title>Veterans Community Health Enhancement Act of 2008</title>
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      <text>Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.</text>
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