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        <fullName>Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>H<strong>2</strong>O Visa for Seafood Processing Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a nonimmigrant visa category for an alien having a foreign country residence, which he or she has no intention of abandoning, who is coming temporarily to the United States to work in the seafood processing industry.</p>]]></text>
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    <title>H2O Visa for Seafood Processing Act</title>
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