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          <text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Helping Eliminate Limitations for Prompt Response and Recovery Act or the HELP Response and Recovery Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This bill repeals a statute requiring the Department of Homeland Security to limit to no more than 150 days the duration of certain noncompetitive contracts facilitating response to or recovery from a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster. The bill also states that it is the sense of Congress that the repealed statute has been rendered obsolete by changes to law and regulation.&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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