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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 197 (Tuesday, December 10, 2019)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Ms. GABBARD:H.R. 5375.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:The United States Constitution including Article 1, Section8.[Page H10016]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><strong>E. Cooper Brown Ocean Clean Energy Act of 2019</strong></p> <p>This bill allows an energy tax credit for the cost of ocean thermal energy equipment. The bill defines "ocean thermal energy equipment" as equipment that converts ocean thermal energy to usable energy or that uses ocean water as a thermal energy sink to cool a structure. </p>]]></text>
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