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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 19 (Wednesday, February 4, 2015)]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href='http://www.gpo.gov'>www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. SERRANO:H.R. 736.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, Clause 3, which gives Congress thepower ``To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and amongthe several States, and with the Indian Tribes,'' Article ISection 8, Clause 1, which give Congress the power to ``layand collect Taxes, Duties, Imposets and Excises, to pay theDebts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfareof the United States,'' and Article I, Section 8, Clause 18,which gives Congress the power ``To make all Laws which shallbe necessary and proper for carrying into Execution theforegoing Powers.''[Page H813]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <title>Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017</title>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Directs the Secretary of Education to allot funds to states for distribution to local educational agencies (LEAs) to recruit, hire, and train 100,000 new classroom paraprofessionals in order to improve educational achievement for children. </p> <p>Requires that 80% of a state's allotment be allocated to LEAs on the basis of each LEA's proportion of low-income schoolchildren in the state, and that the remainder be allocated on the basis of each LEA's proportion of the overall population of schoolchildren in the state.</p>]]></text>
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    <title>To authorize the appropriation of funds to be used to recruit, hire, and train 100,000 new classroom paraprofessionals in order to improve educational achievement for children.</title>
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