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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 186 (Friday, October 30, 2020)][House][Pages H5715-H5716]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="https://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. KELLER:H.R. 8711.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the U.S. Constitution inthat the legislation exercises[[Page H5716]]legislative powers granted to Congress by that clause ``tomake all Laws which shall be necessary and proper forcarrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all otherPowers vested by this Constitution in the Government of theUnited States, or in any Department or Office thereof.</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Federal Workforce Accountability and Modernization Act</b></p> <p>This bill provides statutory authority for the executive order titled <i>Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service</i>, which was issued on October 21, 2020. The order places executive agency positions that are of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character, and that are not normally subject to change as a result of a presidential transition, in the excepted service instead of the competitive service. </p>]]></text>
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