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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Jan 6, 2016
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for text of more than 300 pages, the sum of 72 hours plus 24 hours for each additional increment of text of 100 or fewer pages.
Whenever a House or Senate Committee reports a bill or joint resolution proposing to repeal or amend all or part of a statute, it must include in its report or in an accompanying document:
the entire text of each section of the statute proposed to be repealed or amended, and
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Neither chamber, nor Congress jointly, may dispense with or otherwise waive or modify the requirements of this Act.
Any Act of Congress that was considered as a bill or resolution in the House or Senate in violation of this Act shall have no force or effect, and no legal, equitable, regulatory, civil, or criminal action may be brought under it.
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Rep. Bridenstine, Jim [R-OK-1] · R–OK
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Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
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