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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 84 (Thursday, May 26, 2016)]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href='http://www.gpo.gov'>www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. DeFAZIO:H.R. 5340.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Clause I, Section 8, of Article I of the United StatesConstitution[Page H3295]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Funding for Aviation Screeners and Threat Elimination Restoration Act or the FASTER Act</b></p> <p>This bill repeals the requirement that a portion of aviation security service fees be credited as offsetting receipts and deposited into the general fund of the Treasury.</p>]]></text>
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    <title>Funding for Aviation Screeners and Threat Elimination Restoration Act</title>
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        <title>To amend title 49, United States Code, to ensure that revenues collected from passengers as aviation security fees are used to help finance the costs of aviation security screening by repealing a requirement that a portion of such fees be credited as offsetting receipts and deposited in the general fund of the Treasury.</title>
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