Public Law 91-510 — Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970
Section 104: Recorded House Committee Votes
Enacted: October 26, 1970 | 91st Congress
Sponsoring Authority: Congress of the United States
Amending: Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, § 133(b), 60 Stat. 832
Plain-language summary
Section 104 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 amended Section 133(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to require that House committee markup votes — votes taken during the sessions where legislation is actually written, amended, and sent to the floor — be recorded individually by member name and made publicly available. Before this provision, committees could conduct markup votes by voice or division, with no permanent individual attribution record.
The change was presented as a transparency reform, consistent with the broader accountability framing of the LRA 1970 package. The logic was the same as for the floor vote provisions in Sections 120 and 121: sunlight as disinfectant, individual accountability as democratic principle.
The structural consequence was also the same: individual attribution creates a scoring surface. Organized interests that score floor votes also score committee markup votes. A member who votes the wrong way in committee markup is flagged before the bill reaches the floor — earlier in the legislative process, at the stage where legislation is most malleable, in a venue with far less public visibility than the House floor. The reform path that preserves accountability while closing that coercion surface is not secrecy — it is timing architecture: when individual attribution enters the public record, not whether it does.
At the same time, the LRA 1970 treated the two chambers differently in ways that compounded over time. Section 103(a) preserved Senate committees’ ability to conduct markup and voting in closed executive sessions. Section 104(a) did impose a Senate attribution requirement, but a structurally different one: Senate committee rollcall votes must be published in committee reports on measures and amendments — after the fact, tied to the report, not maintained as a real-time public inspection file covering every vote on every proposition. The House got real-time individual attribution as a standing public record; the Senate got report-tied attribution that operates after the markup stage is complete. This asymmetry was not incidental. It is a natural experiment that helps explain why the House has experienced more severe capture dynamics than the Senate over the fifty years since enactment.
Verdict line
Section 104 extended the same attribution architecture that produced weaponized transparency on the House floor into the committee room where legislation is actually written — creating the identical coercion surface at the stage of the process with the least public visibility and the most consequential decisions. The downstream corrective legislation addresses floor vote attribution without touching Section 104, leaving a major upstream capture surface intact and predictably displacing organized interest pressure upstream to the point where it is harder to observe and harder to correct.
Legal impact assessment
This section is a vulnerability audit, not a litigation forecast. Confidence ratings apply to the finding, not to its political significance. See the companion brief on LRA 1970 §§ 120/121 for the foundational legal framework. This section assesses structural legal exposure created by Section 104’s attribution architecture in downstream private-market dynamics; the Speech or Debate Clause (U.S. Const. art. I, §6, cl. 1) separately limits suits that would “question” members for legislative acts (see Gravel v. United States, 408 U.S. 606 (1972); Eastland v. U.S. Servicemen’s Fund, 421 U.S. 491 (1975)), but it does not govern the private aggregation and political use of disclosed committee vote records addressed here.
L-1: Reform pathway — rules change versus statutory amendment
House-side reform of Section 104’s committee markup attribution requirements is achievable through a House rules change — the same pathway available for correcting the floor vote attribution provisions in Sections 120 and 121. A statutory amendment is not required.
The basis is Section 101(2) of the LRA 1970, which states that Title I provisions are enacted “insofar as applicable to the House of Representatives, as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of Representatives, subject to and with full recognition of the power of the House of Representatives to enact or change any rule of the House at any time.” Section 104 is a Title I provision. Section 104(b) is also structurally self-identifying: it amends “Clause 27(b) of Rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives.” A statute that amends a House rule, enacted under the House’s rulemaking power, is modifiable by House rule. United States v. Ballin, 144 U.S. 1 (1892); U.S. Const. art. I, §5, cl. 2.
A statutory amendment remains the preferable instrument for three reasons: (1) it aligns the U.S. Code and public law text with actual practice; (2) it permanently resolves the question rather than creating a House-rule-versus-statute tension; and (3) any parallel reform of Senate-side attribution under Section 104(a) requires a statutory amendment, because the Senate cannot be bound by House rules. Full correction of the attribution architecture at both chambers requires legislation; House-side correction alone does not.
This matters for reform strategy. The displacement dynamic identified in S-2 is correctable at no additional political cost beyond what floor vote reform already requires. The floor vote correctives and the committee markup corrective are reachable through the same instrument, in the same rules package, by the same majority vote.
Textual Finding: High | Litigation Risk: Low
The Section 101(2) rulemaking power anchor is unambiguous from the statutory text. Litigation Risk is Low: no viable legal challenge would compel or prevent the House from modifying its own rules under Article I §5.
L-2: No due process hook for members subject to coercion
As documented in the companion LRA 1970 §§ 120/121 brief, the coercion loop operates through private market mechanisms — interest group scoring, campaign finance allocation, primary challenges — rather than through state action. This insulates the system from due process challenge. The same analysis applies to committee markup attribution: there is no constitutional violation in publishing how a member voted in committee markup, and no cognizable claim for members who face political consequences as a result.
The due process analysis turns on state action doctrine. Constitutional due process constraints apply to government action; private pressure, however coercive in effect, does not engage them. Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co., 419 U.S. 345 (1974) (private actor not a state actor absent sufficient nexus to government); Blum v. Yaretsky, 457 U.S. 991 (1982) (private decisions are not state action even where regulated or funded, absent state responsibility for the specific conduct); Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co., 457 U.S. 922 (1982) (framework for state action analysis); Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, 587 U.S. 802 (2019) (private management of a public forum does not convert private entity into state actor).
One caveat applies at the margin: if government officials themselves threatened regulated entities or private actors to punish or chill political activity — a different fact pattern than private interest-group scoring — that could generate a government coercion claim. NRA of Am. v. Vullo, 602 U.S. 175 (2024). Nothing in the Section 104 architecture involves that fact pattern; the coercion loop is entirely private-market.
Textual Finding: High | Litigation Risk: Low
The publication of government votes is constitutionally protected disclosure of public official conduct. The coercion downstream of that disclosure operates through private mechanisms and does not generate justiciable constitutional claims under current doctrine.
L-3: First Amendment exposure for downstream use restrictions
Any corrective mechanism that restricts how interest groups may use publicly available markup vote records would encounter First Amendment political speech and information-use precedents. The same tension identified in the companion brief applies here — arguably with greater force, because committee markup votes occur earlier in the deliberative process and any restriction on their use has broader effects on political speech rights.
The controlling doctrinal lines are:
Political speech and campaign finance. Interest group scorecards and electoral targeting based on voting records are core political speech. Restrictions on that activity face the highest constitutional scrutiny. Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976); Citizens United v. FEC, 558 U.S. 310 (2010); McCutcheon v. FEC, 572 U.S. 185 (2014); FEC v. Ted Cruz for Senate, 596 U.S. 289 (2022).
Publication of truthful information on matters of public concern. Courts have repeatedly protected the dissemination of truthful, lawfully obtained information about matters of public concern, even when that information is embarrassing or harmful to the subjects. Smith v. Daily Mail Publ’g Co., 443 U.S. 97 (1979); Bartnicki v. Vopper, 532 U.S. 514 (2001). How a member of Congress voted in committee markup is among the clearest possible examples of a matter of public concern.
Information aggregation and data-use restrictions. A restriction on how interest groups aggregate markup vote records in combination with campaign finance data is most directly controlled by Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., 564 U.S. 552 (2011), which struck down a state law restricting the use of prescriber-identifying data. The Court treated the restriction as a content- and speaker-based burden on speech, applying heightened scrutiny. A use restriction targeting the aggregation of lawmakers’ voting records with contribution data is at least as exposed — the subject matter is more clearly political, and the speaker restriction would be more obviously viewpoint-adjacent.
Downstream associational pressure. Americans for Prosperity Found. v. Bonta, 594 U.S. 595 (2021) signals the current Court’s heightened sensitivity to disclosure and aggregation requirements that create chilling effects on political participation. While that case addressed compelled disclosure rather than use restriction, the analytical framework is relevant to any reform that touches the interface between voting records and political organization.
This does not make reform impossible. It means that reform options operating on the disclosure timing rather than the downstream use of records avoid this exposure entirely — which is the basis for R-3.
Textual Finding: Medium | Litigation Risk: High
The First Amendment doctrinal exposure for use restrictions on publicly available voting records is high and well-grounded in controlling precedent. Reform options that modify the recording mechanism or publication timing rather than restricting downstream use avoid this exposure.
Structural analysis
The core mechanism — individual attribution → scoring surface → coercion loop → incentive displacement — is documented in full in the companion LRA 1970 §§ 120/121 brief and is not reproduced here. This section documents the committee-specific dynamics that the companion brief does not cover.
S-1: Senate/House asymmetry as natural experiment
The LRA 1970 created a meaningful but more nuanced asymmetry than a simple House-attribution/Senate-exemption frame captures. Two statutory provisions interact to produce it.
Section 103(a) preserved Senate committees’ ability to conduct markup and voting in closed executive sessions. The open-meetings requirement does not apply to Senate markup votes. Senate members can deliberate and vote in committee without those votes occurring in a public session.
Section 104(a) does impose a Senate attribution requirement — but a structurally different one. Senate committee rollcall votes on measures and amendments must be reported in committee reports with member-by-member tabulation. That is individual attribution, but it is report-tied and after-the-fact: it operates at the point of reporting, not as a standing public inspection file covering every vote on every proposition in real time. A senator who votes in a closed markup session is accountable through the committee report; the vote is not immediately available to scoring systems during the markup itself.
The House, under Section 104(b), has no equivalent protection. House committee rollcall votes must be made available “for inspection by the public” — a real-time standing record of every vote on every amendment, motion, and proposition in any committee meeting. The scoring surface is open continuously, not only at the point of report.
The practical asymmetry is therefore: Senate markup votes occur in sessions that can be closed, and attribution enters the public record at the report stage. House markup votes occur in sessions that must be open, and attribution enters the public record in real time as a standing inspection file. Both chambers have individual attribution; the character and timing of that attribution differ in precisely the ways that determine whether a real-time scoring and coercion system can operate during the markup process itself.
This asymmetry also provides a textual cue about Congressional intent: Section 104(a) uses the phrase “any such standing committee of the Senate,” while Section 104(b) uses “any committee” for the House. Congress demonstrably knew how to specify “standing committee” when it wanted to. The broader House language may be relevant to the subcommittee scope question in S-3 — but the intent of the differential treatment between chambers is apparent from the structure of the package as a whole.
The comparative prediction the asymmetry generates: if real-time individual attribution is causally related to capture dynamics, House committees should exhibit more susceptibility to organized interest pressure during markup than Senate committees operating under closed-session markup rules and report-tied attribution. This is a testable prediction consistent with the observable fifty-year divergence in deliberative culture between the two chambers. But taken alone, the asymmetry does not prove causation — bicameral differences also reflect different chamber sizes, term lengths, rules structures, media environments, and political incentives. The natural-experiment framing identifies a strong institutional contrast consistent with the mechanism documented in the companion brief and worth treating as a serious causal hypothesis. Rigorous empirical verification is the subject of R-5.
This asymmetry was built into the same legislative package and produced major downstream consequences, whether or not Congress fully understood them at the time. The Senate exemption in Section 103(a) was not a drafting oversight — it was a structural choice embedded inside a unified transparency frame, which made it less visible as an independent design decision than it would have been if addressed separately.
Textual Finding: High | Structural Significance: High
The statutory asymmetry between Section 104(a) (Senate, report-tied) and Section 104(b) (House, real-time public inspection) is unambiguous from the primary source text. The causal claim about differential capture dynamics is a structural inference supported by the mechanism documented in the companion brief; empirical verification would require longitudinal markup vote analysis.
S-2: Upstream displacement from floor vote reform
If proposed corrective legislation modifies floor vote attribution under Sections 120 and 121 without simultaneously amending Section 104’s committee markup attribution requirement, organized interests facing reduced floor vote scoring capacity will predictably shift targeting upstream to committee markup votes.
This is not speculation — it is a direct consequence of the incentive structure. Organized interests have invested in scoring infrastructure. If the floor scoring surface is reduced, the committee markup scoring surface becomes more valuable, not less. Targeting shifts to where the signal is clearest and the leverage is greatest: the committee vote that determines whether an amendment survives to the floor at all.
The displacement dynamic means that a floor vote reform that does not address Section 104 does not reduce capture — it relocates capture to an earlier, less visible, less publicly scrutinized stage of the legislative process. The total capture pressure on a member may not decrease; it may increase, because committee markup votes occur before floor votes, and a member who breaks with organized interest positions in committee may not survive to cast the floor vote.
This is a structural gap in the known proposed corrective legislation. It is documented here because it is a predictable design failure that can be corrected before the corrective legislation is enacted.
Textual Finding: Medium | Structural Significance: High
The displacement dynamic is a structural inference, not a textual finding from Section 104 itself. The mechanism is well-established in the companion brief. The Structural Significance rating is High because incomplete reform may produce no net reduction in capture and could produce worse outcomes by moving pressure to less visible venues.
S-3: Subcommittee attribution complexity
The best reading of the enacted House Rules text is that clause 27(b) applies to subcommittees. Section 129(a) of the LRA 1970 amended clause 27(a) of Rule XI to state that “The Rules of the House are the rules of its committees and subcommittees so far as applicable,” and that “Each subcommittee of a committee is a part of that committee and is subject to the authority and direction of that committee.” (Pub. L. 91-510, §129(a), amending Rule XI cl. 27(a); 84 Stat. 1161.) Clause 27(b)’s requirement that rollcall vote results from “any meeting of any committee” be made available for public inspection applies to subcommittee meetings under that applicability rule. There is no explicit carve-out for subcommittees. The residual “so far as applicable” language creates narrow implementation questions at the margins — where the “offices of that committee” are located for a subcommittee, how records are maintained — but those are administrative mechanics, not scope.
Note on modern rule numbering: Clause 27(a) and 27(b) of Rule XI as enacted in 1970 have since been re-codified. The current equivalents in the House Rules (118th/119th Congress) are Rule XI, Clause 1(a) (subcommittee applicability) and Rule XI, Clause 2(e) (public inspection file). This brief uses the 1970 numbering throughout for direct correspondence with the statutory text.
The structural consequence follows directly: the attribution regime creates exploitation surfaces at multiple levels of the committee hierarchy simultaneously. A member of a key subcommittee faces individual attribution pressure at the subcommittee stage — where public attention is lowest, where fewer members vote, and where individual votes carry proportionally the most weight. Organized interests scoring subcommittee markup votes can identify and apply pressure at the earliest possible stage, before a bill has received any floor attention. A subcommittee amendment that survives to full committee markup is substantially more likely to survive to the floor. Pressure applied at the subcommittee stage is pressure applied to the most consequential vote a legislator may cast on a given bill.
Textual Finding: High | Structural Significance: High
Subcommittee coverage is established by the combined reading of Section 104(b) (clause 27(b)’s attribution requirement for “any meeting of any committee”) and Section 129(a) (clause 27(a)’s applicability rule: House Rules govern committees and subcommittees, and each subcommittee is a part of its parent committee). The structural significance is the leverage that early-stage attribution pressure provides at the point of least public visibility.
S-4: Accountability gap — no visibility into scoring effects
The companion brief documented the accountability gap in the floor vote coercion loop: the mechanism operates through private transactions between interest groups and campaigns with no public record that connects a member’s markup vote, a subsequent interest group scoring decision, and a campaign finance consequence. The same accountability gap applies at the committee level — with the additional obscuring factor that committee markup receives substantially less press and public attention than floor votes.
A floor vote on a major bill may be covered. The subcommittee markup vote that determined the bill’s final form is rarely covered at all. The coercion loop at the committee level operates in lower light, against a smaller audience, with the same structural completeness.
Textual Finding: High | Structural Significance: High
The accountability gap is a direct structural consequence of the mechanism documented in the companion brief. The lower visibility of committee markup votes increases rather than decreases the significance of the gap.
Abstraction layer analysis
This section applies the systems engineering lens documented in the Church Bells brief methodology. Section 104 is a short statutory amendment; the abstraction layer concerns are correspondingly focused.
A-1: No minimum standard for recording consistency
Section 104 mandates that committee markup votes be recorded individually by member name. It does not specify a minimum standard for how those records are maintained, published, or preserved. The recording obligation is clear; the implementation interface is undefined. This produces inconsistent administration across committees and across Congresses — some committees maintain detailed, searchable markup records; others produce records that technically satisfy the statutory requirement while remaining practically inaccessible.
An undefined publication interface is an abstraction layer collapse. The policy goal (public access to individual markup vote records) is codified at the statutory layer, but the implementation contract — what “recorded” and “publicly available” mean in operational terms — is left to administrative discretion without minimum standards. The result is a compliance surface that satisfies the letter of the statute while varying dramatically in whether the stated purpose is achieved.
Textual Finding: High | Structural Significance: Medium
The absence of minimum publication standards is unambiguous from the statutory text. Structural Significance is Medium because the practical effect varies — some committees administer this provision in ways that fully achieve the stated purpose; others do not.
A-2: No synchronization with downstream scoring infrastructure
Section 104 records individual committee markup votes. It does not — and at the time of enactment, could not — anticipate the digital scoring infrastructure that would develop in subsequent decades to consume those records at scale. The statutory provision created a data output without specifying any interface governing how that data could be aggregated, scored, or used in combination with campaign finance data.
This is not a drafting failure unique to 1970 — it is a structural consequence of codifying transparency without a mechanism to review how the transparency output interacts with downstream systems as those systems develop. The provision has no review or update mechanism. The interface between the statutory data output and the private interest group scoring infrastructure that consumes it is entirely unregulated by the statute that created the data.
Textual Finding: High | Structural Significance: High
The absence of any interface specification or review mechanism is clear from the text. The downstream scoring infrastructure interaction is documented in the companion brief. This collapse is the committee-level analog of the floor vote abstraction failure identified in the §§ 120/121 brief.
Bundling analysis
The bundling analysis methodology is documented in the companion brief. Section 104 presents a specific bundling dynamic worth noting.
Section 104 was enacted as part of a broader transparency package that included Sections 120 and 121 (floor vote attribution), Section 103 (open committee meeting requirements), and other accountability provisions. The bundling of these provisions into a single legislative package meant that the structural tradeoffs of individual attribution — at the floor level and the committee level — were evaluated together under a single reform frame, rather than separately on their individual merits.
The Senate’s differential treatment in the same package — closed markup sessions under Section 103(a), report-tied attribution under Section 104(a) — was adopted within the same package, which means the deliberative costs of real-time individual attribution were implicitly acknowledged at the time of enactment and the Senate was shielded from them while the House was not. This bundling pattern obscures a policy choice that deserved explicit deliberation: if deliberative costs are significant enough to give the Senate closed markup sessions and after-the-fact report-tied attribution, on what structural basis does the House bear real-time individual attribution as a standing public inspection file without equivalent protection?
The bundling did not create a false choice in the traditional sense — it did not prevent members from voting against specific provisions. But it embedded a structural inconsistency (Senate closed markup/voting + report-tied attribution / House standing public-inspection attribution) inside a package framed as a unified transparency reform, making the asymmetry less visible as an independent design decision than it would have been if addressed separately.
Textual Finding: High | Structural Significance: Medium
What Section 104 gets right
The attribution requirement in Section 104 achieves its stated goal. Members’ committee markup votes are recorded individually and are publicly available. Constituents, journalists, and researchers who want to know how their representative voted in committee markup can find that record. The transparency goal — as a transparency goal — is met.
Section 104 also created a longitudinal record of committee markup behavior that did not previously exist. That record has genuine research and accountability value independent of its exploitation by organized interest scoring systems. Eliminating individual attribution entirely would destroy that record and return committee markup to the pre-1970 opacity that the reform was correctly motivated to address.
The design problem is not that the transparency goal is wrong. The design problem is that transparency, once created, interacts with downstream systems that did not exist when the transparency was designed. A corrective that preserves the transparency goal while modifying its exploitation surface is architecturally sound; a corrective that eliminates the transparency goal entirely is not.
Textual Finding: High | Structural Significance: High
The positive finding is rated highly because it anchors the Recommendations section: any reform must preserve the legitimate transparency function while addressing the coercion surface.
Recommendations
Recommendations are framed as engineering corrections, not political positions. The same recommendations apply regardless of which party controls the committee system.
R-1: Reform Section 104 markup attribution simultaneously with floor vote attribution reform — through the same instrument. The L-1 finding establishes that House-side Section 104 reform is achievable through a House rules change, the same pathway available for correcting the floor vote attribution provisions in Sections 120 and 121. Any rules package that addresses floor vote attribution should include committee markup attribution reform in the same instrument. Failure to do so does not reduce capture — it relocates it upstream to an earlier, less visible stage. The displacement dynamic in S-2 is predictable and preventable. A statutory amendment remains preferable for Senate-side parallel reform and U.S. Code alignment, but House-side reform can and should proceed by rules change if legislation is unavailable.
R-2: Reform the timing of disclosure, not the use of data. L-3 identifies that restricting how interest groups use publicly available markup vote records faces serious First Amendment doctrinal exposure. The available lever is not a use restriction; it is a disclosure delay. If individual markup vote records are released on a structured lag — published after the legislative process at that stage has concluded, rather than in real-time — the legitimate transparency goal is preserved while the real-time scoring surface is removed. Legislators retain full public accountability for their committee votes; what changes is that organized interests cannot use real-time individual attribution to apply coercive pressure before the vote’s consequences are locked in. This is the structural analog of the friction-as-feature insight documented in the companion brief: the fix does not eliminate the data, it changes when the data lands.
A structured disclosure delay is constitutionally permissible. The Constitution’s Journal Clause, Article I §5 cl. 3, requires Congress to publish its proceedings “from time to time” — language that does not establish a constitutional requirement of immediate real-time disclosure. Congress’s broad rulemaking authority over its own procedures, United States v. Ballin, 144 U.S. 1 (1892), supports the same conclusion. No constitutional provision requires that committee markup vote records be published during or immediately after the markup session itself.
R-3: Establish minimum publication standards for committee markup records. A statutory or regulatory minimum standard should define what “recorded by member name and publicly available” means in practice: format, publication timeline, searchability, and archival requirements. This closes the abstraction layer gap identified in A-1 and ensures that the legitimate transparency function is preserved while administration is consistent across committees.
R-4: Address subcommittee attribution explicitly in any reform. The attribution requirement under clause 27(b) extends to subcommittee markup votes under the applicability rule in clause 27(a). Any reform of committee markup attribution must address subcommittees directly. A reform that covers full committee markup votes without specifying subcommittee treatment displaces the scoring surface to the earliest and least visible point in the legislative process — the stage where individual votes carry the most weight and public attention is lowest. The reform should either extend consistent publication standards and disclosure timing to subcommittee markup votes, or define a threshold of formality below which individual attribution is not required and state that threshold explicitly.
R-5: Commission the longitudinal study that the Senate/House asymmetry enables. The fifty-year natural experiment identified in S-1 is an underutilized research resource. A rigorous comparative study of House versus Senate committee markup behavior — controlling for other variables — would produce empirical evidence about whether individual attribution is causally related to the capture dynamics observed in the House. That evidence should inform and calibrate reform design; it is not a prerequisite for it. The structural case for reform does not depend on the study’s outcome. But the study would either validate the mechanism identified here or identify additional causal factors that a second-generation reform should address. It is currently missing from the legislative record, and commissioning it is the kind of function the Governance Design Agency would perform as a standing professional body.
Further reading
LRA 1970 §§ 120/121 — Floor Vote Attribution and the Coercion Loop (Church Bells companion brief) — Establishes the core mechanism this brief builds on: individual vote attribution, the FECA interaction, the real-time scoring infrastructure, and the coercion loop that has eroded deliberative capacity in the House over fifty years. Read this first.
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, Pub. L. 91-510 — Full statutory text. Sections 103, 104, 120, and 121 should be read together to understand the attribution architecture as a unified package and the deliberate asymmetry in what the Senate retained.
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, § 133(b), 60 Stat. 832 — The provision Section 104 amended. Reading the pre-amendment text clarifies what the reform changed and what it left untouched.
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 and subsequent amendments — The interaction between individual vote attribution and campaign finance disclosure infrastructure is the mechanism through which scoring systems operate. The FECA framework is documented in the companion brief.
The Governance Design Agency (The Statecraft Blueprint) — The long-term structural proposal that Church Bells analysis informs. R-5’s recommendation for a commissioned longitudinal study is the kind of function the GDA would perform as a standing professional body.
Postscript
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