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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. ROS-LEHTINEN:H.R. 519.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, including Clause18 of that Section.[Page H551]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text>On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 259 - 169 (Roll no. 28).</text>
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        <text>Failed of passage/not agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 259 - 169 (Roll no. 28).</text>
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        <text>Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H570)</text>
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        <text>At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.</text>
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        <text>DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 519.</text>
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        <text>Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H563-569; text of measure as introduced: CR H563)</text>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>United Nations Tax Equalization Refund Act of 2011 - States that it shall be U.S. policy to: (1) direct the United Nations (U.N.) to return to the United States a specified amount overpaid into the United Nations Tax Equalization Fund (TEF) as of December 31, 2009; (2) use U.S. influence to press the U.N. to reform its TEF assessment procedures to reduce the discrepancies between TEF income and expenditures; and (3) annually instruct the U.N. to return to the United States any TEF surplus funds payable to the United States.</p> <p>Withholds such amount from the U.S. contribution to the regularly assessed biennial budget of the U.N. until the Secretary of State certifies to Congress that the U.N. has returned such amount to the United States.</p>]]></text>
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    <title>United Nations Tax Equalization Refund Act of 2011</title>
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      <text>On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 259 - 169 (Roll no. 28).</text>
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