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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. RENACCI:H.R. 3448.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.''Article I, Section 8, Clause 18: ``The Congress shall havePower To make all Laws which shall be necessary and properfor carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and allother Powers vested by the Constitution in the Government ofthe United States, or in any Department or Officerthereof.'''[Page H7714]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Returning Investment to America Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow&nbsp;an extension of the&nbsp;election allowed to domestic corporations to deduct dividends received from controlled foreign corporations (election may be made for any taxable year beginning before December 31, 2012).&nbsp; Limits the amount of such deduction in any taxable year&nbsp;to the amount by which the domestic corporation increases its payroll and by the amount of its investment in depreciable business assets.</p>]]></text>
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