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        <fullName>Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Citizen's Accessibility Election Act - Amends the Revised Statutes with respect to the time of a federal election to establish the first Saturday and Sunday after the first Friday in November, in every even numbered year, as the days for the election.</p> <p></p> <p>Establishes the polling place hours in the continental United States for federal elections as the six-hour period beginning with noon Eastern time.</p>]]></text>
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