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      <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>&lt;pre&gt;[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 118 (Tuesday, July 11, 2023)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [&lt;a href="https://www.gpo.gov"&gt;www.gpo.gov&lt;/a&gt;]By Mr. EDWARDS:H.R. 4544.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 9, Clause 7``No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but inConsequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regularStatement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of allpublic Money shall be published from time to time.''The single subject of this legislation is:Prevents federal funds from being used for a federalelection in a state that does not prohibit ballot harvesting.[Page H3207]&lt;/pre&gt;</constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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          <text>Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Oversight and Accountability, Science, Space, and Technology, Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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. Edwards, Chuck [R-NC-11]</fullName>
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          <text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No Federal Funds for Ballot Harvesting Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This bill requires each state, in order to receive federal funds for election administration, to prohibit the knowing collection and transmission of a ballot in a federal election that was mailed to another person (commonly referred to as ballot harvesting), with exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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