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    <abstract>The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, to which was referred the bill (S. 494) to amend chapter 23 of title 5, United States Code, to clarify the disclosures of information protected from prohibited personnel practices, require a statement in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements that such policies, forms, and agreements conform with certain disclosure protections, provide certain authority for the Special Counsel, and for other purposes, having considered the same reports favorably thereon without amendments and recommends that the bill do pass.</abstract>
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