[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 735 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 735

        To prohibit the enforcement of certain Executive orders.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 30, 2017

 Ms. Jackson Lee (for herself and Mr. Raskin) introduced the following 
  bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in 
 addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, and 
   Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
        To prohibit the enforcement of certain Executive orders.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Universal Security of American 
Values Act of 2017'' or as the ``USA Values Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds as follows:
            (1) The Constitution is the document that embodies the 
        fundamental laws and principles by which the United States is 
        governed.
            (2) In a Nation of laws, not of men, no person, including 
        the President of the United States, has the power to violate 
        the Constitution of United States.
            (3) In a Nation whose symbol is the Statute of Liberty, 
        which welcomes the ``tired, poor and huddled masses yearning to 
        breathe free,'' the Executive order issued Friday, January 26, 
        2017, entitled, ``Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist 
        Entry into the United States'', is an affront to national 
        values and is therefore, null and void, shall have no force and 
        effect, and may not be implemented, administered, enforced, or 
        carried out.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION.

    No Executive order may be enforced that would be in direct 
violation of an existing Executive order, public law, or fully executed 
regulatory agency process as it relates to--
            (1) Fourth Amendment due process;
            (2) Fourteenth Amendment protections;
            (3) the Immigration and Nationality Act;
            (4) any laws that are intended to protect the civil 
        liberties, civil rights, or human rights of persons lawfully 
        admitted into the United States or natural born or naturalized 
        citizens of the United States; or
            (5) impact on individuals based upon race, religion, 
        ethnicity, place of birth, place of residence, gender, sexual 
        orientation and identity, age, or statuses that pose no undue 
        health threat to the general population.

SEC. 4. NO FUNDS AVAILABLE.

    No amounts (including fees) made available to the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, or to any other official of a Federal agency, by any 
Act for any fiscal year, may be used to implement, administer, enforce, 
or carry out (including through the issuance of any regulations) any of 
the policy changes set forth in the Executive order entitled 
``Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United 
States'' (January 27, 2017).
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