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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. MICA:H.R. 309.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, Clause 1. The Congress shall havePower to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence andgeneral Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Impostsand Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.[Page H255]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <fullName>Rep. Mica, John L. [R-FL-7]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ Samuel B. Moody Bataan Death March Compensation Act - Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay certain compensation to individuals (or their survivors) who, as members of the Armed Forces during World War II: (1) were captured on the peninsula of Bataan or the island of Corregidor in the Philippines by Japanese forces; and (2) participated in and survived the Bataan Death March. <p>Allows a survivor payment to be made to the nearest surviving relative of such individual.]]></text>
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    <title>Samuel B. Moody Bataan Death March Compensation Act</title>
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