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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 1, 2023)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="https://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Ms. NORTON:H.R. 729.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:clause 18 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution.The single subject of this legislation is:to require the Secretary of the Interior to remove theEmancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park in the District ofColumbia.[Page H630]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Emancipation Statue Removal Act</b></p> <p>This bill directs the Department of the Interior to remove the Emancipation Memorial from Lincoln Park in the District of Columbia.</p> <p> Interior shall donate the Emancipation Memorial to a museum or other similar entity. The recipient of the Emancipation Memorial may not store, display, or exhibit the memorial outside, but if the memorial is stored, displayed, or exhibited outside, ownership of the memorial will revert back to the federal government.</p>]]></text>
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