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      <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>&lt;pre&gt;[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 79 (Tuesday, May 7, 2024)][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 Ms. BOEBERT:H.R. 8263.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following: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;but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniformthroughout the United States;The single subject of this legislation is:To spur additional non-federal hydropower development onReclamation projects and streamline the permitting processthrough amending the Reclamation Project Act of 1939.[Page H2937]&lt;/pre&gt;</constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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