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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Skills Standards Certification Evaluation Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) evaluate skills certification programs for employees; (2) rank such programs or determine best practices models for them; and (3) make recommendations on the merits of a unified national approach to such programs, and ways to streamline duplicative and similar programs into a single, widely recognized certification.<br> </p> <p>Requires the Secretaries to post evaluation results on the Internet and make them available to Congress and to interested parties.</p>]]></text>
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