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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 126 (Thursday, July 25, 2019)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. LUETKEMEYER:H.R. 4043.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:The Constitutional authority on which this bill rests isthe power of Congress to lay and collect taxes, duties,imposts, and excises to pay the debts and provide for thecommon Defense and general welfare of the United States, asenumerated in Article I, Section 8, Clause 1. Additionally,Congress has the Constitutional authority to regulatecommerce among the States and with Indian Tribes, asenumerated in Article I, Section 8, Clause 3.[Page H7470]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Vested Employee Pension Benefit Protection Act</b></p> <p> This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employees in the building and construction industry who have attained age 55 and are not separated from employment to make distributions from certain tax-exempt multiemployer pension plans if they were participants in such plan on or before April 30, 2013. Such payments shall be suspended during any period in which the multiemployer pension plan is in endangered or critical status. </p>]]></text>
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