[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 248 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 248

     To block implementation of the Executive order that restricts 
  individuals from certain countries from entering the United States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 30, 2017

Mr. Murphy (for himself, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. 
 Coons, Mr. Schatz, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Booker, and Mrs. 
    Murray) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
     To block implementation of the Executive order that restricts 
  individuals from certain countries from entering the United States.

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

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) The Executive order titled ``Protecting the Nation From 
        Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States'' violates the 
        Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.) which 
        states that no person can be discriminated against in the 
        issuance of an immigrant visa because of the person's race, 
        sex, nationality, place of birth, or place of residence.
            (2) That Executive order violates the Establishment Clause 
        of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and 
        the equal protection component of the Due Process Clause of the 
        Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST USE OF FUNDS.

    No funds, resources, or fees made available to the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, or to any other official of a Federal agency, by 
this Act or any other Act for any fiscal year, may be used to implement 
or enforce the Executive order titled ``Protecting the Nation From 
Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States'' signed on January 27, 
2017.
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