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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 Ms. BERKLEY:H.R. 3460.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Sec. 8 of the United States Constitution.[[Page H7830]][Page H7829]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <fullName>Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>American Jobs First Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the election to deduct dividends received by a domestic corporation&nbsp;from a&nbsp;controlled foreign&nbsp;corporation.&nbsp; Increases the amount of such deduction by increases in the payroll of the domestic corporation over the previous taxable year.&nbsp; Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to provide, by regulations, for a recapture of any portion of the increased tax deduction allowed to a domestic corporation if such corporation's&nbsp;payroll decreases during either of the two taxable years following the taxable year in which the increased deduction&nbsp;was allowed.</p>]]></text>
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    <title>American Jobs First Act of 2011</title>
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        <title>To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow temporarily a reduced rate of tax with respect to repatriated foreign earnings.</title>
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