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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 61 (Tuesday, April 9, 2019)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Miss GONZALEZ-COLON of Puerto Rico:H.R. 2173.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:The Congress has the power to enact this legislationpursuant to Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1, 4, and 18 of theU.S. Constitution, which provide as follows:The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes,Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide forthe common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniformthroughout the United States; [. . .]To establish a uniform rule of naturalization [. . .]throughout the United States; [. . .]--AndTo make all laws which shall be necessary and proper forcarrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all otherPowers vested by this Constitution in the Government of theUnited States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.[Page H3219]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <fullName>Resident Commissioner González-Colón, Jenniffer [R-PR-At Large]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>This bill reserves a certain number of EB-5 visas (immigrant investors) for immigrants who invest in a new commercial enterprise that will create employment in an area where the President has declared a major disaster. For a period of three fiscal years starting from the fiscal year in which a disaster has been declared, 100 such visas must be reserved for each fiscal year.</p>]]></text>
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    <title>To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reserve EB-5 visas each fiscal year for investors in new commercial enterprises in areas with respect to which a major disaster has been declared by the President.</title>
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