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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>]Mr. CARTER:H.R. 2025.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article 1, Section 8: To Provide for the common defence; Toprovide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws ofthe Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; Toprovide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia,and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in theService of the United States.[Page H3757]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Border States Security Improvement Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to provide funds to the governor of a state to employ units or members of that state's National Guard, state defense forces, and law enforcement agencies to help secure an international border that forms part of that state's border. </p> <p>Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide the requested funds for such use of the National Guard even though the border security activities are conducted while National Guard members are not in federal service; and (2) pay a state an amount that the governor certifies is necessary for expenses of such activities from funds available to the Department of Defense (DOD) for homeland defense.</p>]]></text>
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    <title>Border States Security Improvement Act</title>
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        <title>To amend title 32, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Defense to provide funds to support the use by a State of the National Guard, State defense forces, and law enforcement agencies in securing an international border that forms part of the border of the State, and for other purposes.</title>
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