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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 64 (Friday, April 12, 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. 2307.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, 3 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;[. . .]To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among theseveral States, and with the Indian Tribes; [. . .]--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 H3265]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <fullName>Resident Commissioner González-Colón, Jenniffer [R-PR-At Large]</fullName>
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    <title>To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide authority to the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration to provide a cash award to Administration employees with foreign language skills, and for other purposes.</title>
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