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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href='http://www.gpo.gov'>www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. GRIMM:H.R. 1611.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, Clause 1[Page H2915]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text>Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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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        <fullName>Rep. Grimm, Michael G. [R-NY-13]</fullName>
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        <fullName>Rep. Bartlett, Roscoe G. [R-MD-6]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Clean Energy Business Zone Act of 2011 and the Clean Energy Empowerment Zone Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to designate 40 clean energy business zones between 2011 and 2014, (2) allow an increased tax credit for wages paid in such a zone, (3) allow a work opportunity tax credit for wages paid to an employee in such a zone, (4) allow financing of any qualified Green building or clean energy facility with clean renewable energy bonds, (5) allow increased expensing of property in such a zone, and (6) allow an exclusion from gross income of gain from the sale or exchange or any clean energy business zone asset held for more than five years.</p> <p>Amends the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to waive loan fees for qualified Green building and clean energy facility loans made before 2022.</p>]]></text>
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    <title>Clean Energy Empowerment Zone Act of 2011</title>
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        <title>To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the designation of Clean Energy Business Zones and for tax incentives for the construction of, and employment at, energy-efficient buildings and clean energy facilities, and for other purposes.</title>
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      <text>Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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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