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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 174 (Tuesday, October 6, 2020)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="https://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. HOLDING:H.R. 8538.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1: ``To lay and collect Taxes,Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts and providefor the common Defence and general Welfare of the UnitedStates; but all Duties, Imposts, and Excises shall be uniformthroughout the United States''.Further, the Sixteenth Amendment provides Congress thepower to ``lay and collect taxes on income, from whateversource derived''.[Page H5673]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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    <title>To allow certain governmental pension plans to include firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and paramedics, and for other purposes.</title>
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