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<item congress="113" measure-type="s" measure-number="2846" measure-id="id113s2846" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2014-09-17" update-date="2014-09-29">
<title>A bill to express the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of State should use his existing authority to revoke the passports of United States citizens who have provided material support to ISIS and to require the Secretary to submit a quarterly report to Congress on the use of such authority.</title>
<summary summary-id="id113s2846v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2014-09-29">
<action-date>2014-09-17</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of State: (1) is authorized to revoke the passport of any U.S. citizen whose activities abroad are likely to seriously damage U.S. national security or foreign policy; and (2) should use such authority to revoke the passports of U.S. citizens who are fighting with or providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), and to prevent such individuals from returning to the United States to plan or carry out a terrorist attack.</p>]]></summary-text>
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