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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 102 (Wednesday, June 15, 2022)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="https://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mrs. DEMINGS:H.R. 8075.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, clause 1 provides Congress with thepower to ``lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts andExcises'' in order to ``provide for the . . . general Welfareof the United States.''[Page H5611]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Internet Freedom Rapid Response Act of 2022</b></p> <p>This bill authorizes the U.S. Agency for Global Media's Open Technology Fund to make grants to eligible entities to support internet freedom technologies to counter acute escalations in censorship in closed countries (generally countries in which democratic participation, free expression, freedom of movement, or access to information is suppressed).</p>]]></text>
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