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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 147 (Wednesday, September 28, 2016)]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href='http://www.gpo.gov'>www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. GARRETT:H.R. 6251.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 (The Congress shall havePower ``To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and amongthe several States and within the Indian Tribes'') andArticle I, Section 8, Clause 18 (The Congress shall havePower ``to make all Laws which shall be necessary and properfor carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and allother Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government ofthe United States, or in any Department or Officerthereof'').Additional authority derives from Article III, Section 1(``The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vestedin one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as theCongress may from time to time ordain and establish. TheJudges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall holdtheir Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at statedTimes, receive for their Services, a Compensation, whichshall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.)Additional authority also derives from Article III, Section2,Clause 3 of the Constitution.[Page H6106]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2016</b></p> <p> This bill amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to make Public Company Accounting Oversight Board disciplinary proceedings public unless the Board, on its own motion or after considering the motion of a party, orders otherwise.</p>]]></text>
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