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    <introducedDate>2013-04-12</introducedDate>
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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. SABLAN:H.R. 1545.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, Clause 1The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes,Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide forthe common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniformthroughout the United States.Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make allneedful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory orother Property belonging to the United States; and nothing inthis Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice anyClaims of the United States, or of any particular State.[Page H1993]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text>Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.</text>
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        <fullName>Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]</fullName>
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          <name>Agricultural marketing and promotion</name>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Amends the McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Act and the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to include within the definition of &quot;state&quot; the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.</p>]]></text>
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    <title>To amend the definition of State in certain Federal agricultural laws to include the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.</title>
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        <title>To amend the definition of State in certain Federal agricultural laws to include the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.</title>
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      <text>Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.</text>
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