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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 80 (Tuesday, May 14, 2019)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. BLUMENAUER:H.R. 2703.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8[Page H3790]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Maintaining Appropriate Protections for Legal Entry Act of 2019 or the MAPLE Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill removes various marijuana-related acts from the list of crimes that would make an alien inadmissible for entry into the United States or deportable, if such acts were lawful in the jurisdiction where they occurred.<br> </p>]]></text>
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