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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><strong>Penny Plan to Enhance Infrastructure Act of 2021</strong></p> <p>This bill establishes discretionary spending limits for FY2022 and FY2023. </p> <p>Specifically, the bill </p> <ul> <li>establishes discretionary spending limits for defense and nondefense spending, </li> <li> establishes a separate discretionary spending limit for infrastructure spending,</li> <li> specifies the appropriations accounts and programs that are categorized as infrastructure spending for the purposes of the discretionary spending limits, and</li> <li>excludes infrastructure spending from the existing defense and nondefense categories of spending. </li> </ul> <p>(Under current law, the existing discretionary spending limits for defense and nondefense spending will expire at the end of FY2021, and there is no discretionary spending limit for infrastructure spending.)</p>]]></text>
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