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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Anti-Trust Freedom Act of 2016</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, and section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act from being construed as prohibiting, banning, or otherwise extending to any voluntary economic coordination, cooperation, agreement, or other association, compact, contract, or covenant entered into by or between any individual or group of individuals.</p>]]></text>
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