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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 192 (Tuesday, December 3, 2019)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. KIND:H.R. 5285.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution[Page H9222]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Training for Realtime Writers Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill establishes a grant program to recruit, train, and place real-time writers for closed captioning of television programming.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Education to award grants to court reporting programs that possess the most substantial capacity to train real-time writers for closed captioning English and Spanish video programming. Grant recipients shall use the funds to recruit, train and assist, and place real-time writers.</p>]]></text>
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