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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 205 (Friday, December 4, 2020)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="https://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. HOLLINGSWORTH:H.R. 8873.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18[Page H6858]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text>Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.</text>
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        <fullName>Rep. Hollingsworth, Trey [R-IN-9]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Investing in Veteran Entrepreneurial Talents Act or the Investing in VETS Act</b></p> <p>This bill raises from 3% to 5% the federal contracting participation goal for small businesses that are owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, requires the Small Business Administration to certify these small businesses, and prohibits a small business from self-certifying as owned and controlled by a service-disabled veteran.</p>]]></text>
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        <title>To amend the Small Business Act to modify requirements relating to small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, and for other purposes.</title>
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      <text>Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.</text>
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