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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 99 (Thursday, June 9, 2022)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="https://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Miss GONZALEZ-COLON:H.R. 7997.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 and 18 of the U.S.Constitution, which provide as follows:The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes,Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide forthe common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;[ . . . ]--AndTo make 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 Officer thereof.[Page H5447]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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