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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 161 (Friday, October 11, 2019)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mrs. MURPHY of Florida:H.R. 4658.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, which provides Congress with thepower to regulate commerce among the several states, thepower to promote the progress of science and the useful arts,and the power to make all laws necessary and proper forcarrying out the foregoing powers.[Page H8112]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Empowering Student Borrowers Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of Education (ED) to implement a process whereby certain student loan recipients who desire to repay their loans using an income-based repayment plan may elect to do so through written, electronic, or verbal notice to ED.</p>]]></text>
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