[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 6 (Tuesday, January 13, 2015)]
[House]
[Pages H272-H331]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2015


                             General Leave

  Mr. CARTER of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all 
Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their 
remarks and include extraneous material on H.R. 240 and that I may 
include tabular material on the same.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Texas?

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  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 27 and rule 
XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House 
on the state of the Union for the consideration of the bill, H.R. 240.
  The Chair appoints the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hultgren) to 
preside over the Committee of the Whole.

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                     In the Committee of the Whole

  Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the state of the Union for the consideration of the bill 
(H.R. 240) making appropriations for the Department of Homeland 
Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, and for other 
purposes, with Mr. Hultgren in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The CHAIR. Pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered read the 
first time.
  The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Carter) and the gentlewoman from New 
York (Mrs. Lowey) each will control 60 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. CARTER of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Today, I am privileged to present to the House this bipartisan-
bicameral agreement providing appropriations to the Department of 
Homeland Security, DHS, for fiscal year 2015.
  Before I describe the details of this agreement, I want to thank 
everyone who has worked on this bill here today because, despite its 
importance to national security and public safety, its path to the 
floor has been far from certain.
  First, to the Speaker and majority leader and your staffs, thank you 
for doing what is necessary to get this bill to this stage of the 
legislative process.
  To Mr. Rogers and the full committee staff, thanks for fighting for 
this bill. It wouldn't be on the floor without you.
  To the House and Senate subcommittee staffs and to my personal 
staff--Darek Newby, Kris Mallard, Cornell Teague, Laura Cylke, Anne 
Wake, Steve Gilleland, Bill Zito, Jonas Miller, and Val Baldwin--thank 
you for your advice and counsel in crafting this agreement. Your work 
takes you away from home and from your families, and I appreciate your 
efforts.
  Finally, to the Honorable David Price, who is the ranking member of 
the subcommittee, much thanks to David. Our partnership is critical to 
this bill's success. His experience and measured approach makes this 
agreement even better.
  Thank you, David, for your service and, more importantly, for your 
friendship.
  As everyone knows, several amendments will be proposed to stop the 
President's recent executive actions on immigration. I plan to vote for 
these amendments because, like many Americans, I believe the 
President's actions exceed the authority provided to the Executive in 
the Constitution.
  We need to have this debate, but after all of the arguments have been 
presented, the underlying appropriations bill must be enacted because 
it is critical to the Nation's security and to public safety.
  Mr. Chairman, last week, we watched a terrible tragedy unfold in 
Paris as armed terrorists killed innocent French citizens who were 
doing nothing more than going about their daily lives. Like 9/11, this 
event and others that have occurred this year remind us that our 
democratic values are under constant attack, and they serve as a 
warning that we must remain vigilant.
  Make no mistake, what happened in Paris can happen anywhere, 
including in the United States, and we must provide the resources 
necessary to find and to root out the seeds of terrorism. Therefore, 
passing the Homeland Security Appropriations bill is an imperative we 
cannot fail to meet.
  Mr. Chairman, this agreement is very good, and I am proud of it. It 
supports DHS' frontline personnel and its essential security operations 
and maintains fiscal discipline.
  Specifically, for Customs and Border Protection: this agreement adds 
$42 million above the request to assure the 24/7 surveillance of all 
land, sea, and air approaches; it increases air and marine flight hours 
from 74,000 to 95,000 per year; this agreement fully funds 23,775 CBP 
officers to continue efforts to reduce the wait times of passengers 
arriving at the Nation's international airports without resorting to 
burdensome user fees as proposed by the President; funds are included 
for 21,370 Border Patrol agents, the highest operational force in DHS 
history; funds for tactical communications equipment and border 
security technology are increased by $20 million above the request; 
substantial increases are included for targeting systems and data 
analysis to support counterterrorism efforts.

  For Immigration and Customs Enforcement: custody and deportation 
operations are increased by $862 million above the request to ensure 
the full funding of 34,000 legislatively-mandated detention beds and to 
detain, deport, and deter the influx of families and children illegally 
crossing the southwest border. Included in this amount are 3,732 new 
family detention units to deter the illegal migration of families. Also 
included are 207 new enforcement officers to expedite the process of 
returning illegal immigrants to their countries of origin.
  ICE's investigative capability is increased by $82.4 million over the 
request, which will result in more convictions of child pornographers, 
drug smugglers, human traffickers, and other criminals; full funding is 
provided for E-Verify and all existing 287(g) agreements.
  For the Transportation Security Administration: TSA screeners are 
capped at 45,000--1,000 below last year's level; privatized screening 
is increased by $12.1 million over the request; funds are reduced from 
TSA's current request and prior year balances, saving the taxpayers 
almost $300 million.
  For the U.S. Coast Guard: operational hours in critical source and 
transit zones are increased by $16.7 million over the request; depot 
level maintenance, which is crucial for the Coast Guard's readiness, is 
increased by $52.7 million over the request; the eighth National 
Security Cutter is fully funded; and $95 million over the request is 
added for an additional C-130J aircraft.
  For the United States Secret Service: $25 million in additional funds 
are provided to address training shortfalls highlighted by the White 
House fence jumper and to enhance perimeter security, including for 
additional K-9 teams.
  For the National Protection and Programs Directorate: funds are 
provided so DHS can effectively manage the collection of biometrics and 
protect and enhance the resilience of the Nation's physical and cyber 
infrastructure.
  For the Federal Emergency Management Agency: $7 billion is provided 
to fully fund operational needs for disaster relief; first responder 
grants are increased by $300 million above the President's request to 
sustain funding for State and local grants, firefighter assistance 
grants, and Emergency Management Performance Grants.
  For Science and Technology: $23.7 million above the request is 
provided for vital research efforts, including biological defense, 
cybersecurity, border security, and first responder technology; $300 
million is included to complete the construction of the National Bio 
and Agro-Defense Facility.
  Finally, this agreement provides absolutely no discretionary funds or 
mandatory funds to implement the President's executive actions on 
immigration.
  As you know, the costs of processing immigration applications are 
paid entirely by individual applicants when they submit their 
supporting documentation. Fees from those transactions are collected in 
a specific amount in the Treasury, as mandated by the Immigration and 
Nationality Act.
  The hard-earned income of American taxpayers does not subsidize the 
costs of immigration applications, and the spending bill under 
consideration today has no funding for these purposes.
  In closing, Mr. Chairman, this Homeland Security bill meets the 
security needs of our Nation and the fiscal stewardship expected by the 
taxpayers. I believe it is worthy of every Member's vote, and I urge my 
colleagues to support it.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  At the outset, I want to thank Chairman Carter and Ranking Member

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Price for their very hard work in putting the original bill together, 
which was negotiated by the House and the Senate and could be law right 
now.
  As my colleagues are aware, our committee has not officially 
organized for the new Congress, which means we technically do not yet 
have a ranking minority member for the Department of Homeland Security 
Appropriations Subcommittee.
  Again, I want to say to my colleagues that we could have completed 
action on this bill in the last Congress with the other 11 
appropriations bills considered in the omnibus package. Unfortunately, 
the House majority kicked the can down the road and put these important 
programs under a continuing resolution in a misguided attempt to 
protest the President's executive order on immigration.
  Today, instead of putting a clean bill on the floor, my majority 
colleagues have decided to further inject partisan politics into the 
appropriations process. We all know the outcome of this very dangerous 
game. The legislation in this form will not be enacted.
  All we are doing is further delaying the enactment of a very good 
full-year bill. I am deeply disappointed that Republicans insist on 
making Congress play out this farce at the expense of our Nation's 
security. It has taken less than 2 weeks for the Republican Congress to 
prove that it cannot govern responsibly.
  The Republican majority has already delayed this bill enough. With 
more than a quarter of this fiscal year already gone, we continue to 
play games with the funding for an agency that was created to protect 
the Nation from terrorist attacks.

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  Last week, terrorists brutally murdered 12 people at the office of a 
French satirical magazine, a police officer, and four individuals at a 
kosher grocery store. That is a tragic example of the kind of out-of-
the-blue attack that the Department of Homeland Security, along with 
its other law enforcement partners, is working hard to prevent here in 
the United States.
  Partisan games on immigration will delay grants to States and major 
urban areas, funding that is critical for supporting local first 
responders in our defense against homegrown terrorism and for fusion 
centers, where the Department of Homeland Security gathers, shares, and 
analyzes threat information with its State and local law enforcement 
partners.
  The failure to enact a full-year bill will slow down efforts for the 
Secret Service to begin addressing problems with security at the White 
House.
  The Department will be limited in its ability to move forward with 
the Secretary's Unity of Effort initiative to make the Department more 
strategic and improve coordination among its components.
  Resources to detain truly dangerous criminal aliens and to manage 
another rapid influx of unaccompanied children and families across the 
southwest border are in jeopardy.
  Acquisition of the final National Security Cutter and other Coast 
Guard assets will be delayed, as will construction of the National Bio 
and Agro-Defense Facility.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge my Republican colleagues to give up the partisan 
games that threaten our national security and allow the House to act 
today on the clean bill--again, that was negotiated by Democrats and 
Republicans, House and Senate, a good bill--funding the Department of 
Homeland Security. We have already wasted enough time.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CARTER of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as he may 
consume to the gentleman from Kentucky, Mr. Hal Rogers, the chairman of 
the full committee
  Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky. I thank Chairman Carter for his great work in 
putting this bill together and for yielding the time.
  Mr. Chair, I rise in support of this bill that funds the Department 
of Homeland Security.
  In December, the House passed, on a bipartisan basis, an aggregated 
appropriations bill that funded most of the Federal Government, 11 of 
the 12 annual appropriations bills, and today we consider the last 
remaining of those bills.
  The security of our homeland is one of our highest priorities. This 
bill provides $39.7 billion for that purpose: to protect our borders, 
defend against the threats of terrorism, and enforce our Nation's laws.
  Today we will also consider amendments to the bill that will reverse 
the President's declaration of executive amnesty for illegal aliens. 
One of these amendments would change existing law to prohibit any 
funding, including fees, from being used to implement the order. As the 
chairman of the subcommittee has said, there are no appropriations in 
this bill for the illegal amnesty decree--that is being funded by 
fees--and this amendment would get at that problem.
  The American people have spoken loud and clear. They want our 
immigration laws enforced rather than unilaterally changed by executive 
decree in an unlawful way that undermines our Constitution and the 
integrity of our laws. I will vote for these amendments because the 
Presidential amnesty decree grossly exceeds this authority and violates 
the Constitution.
  The base legislation before us ensures that our immigration laws are 
upheld, that our border is fortified, and that the men and women on our 
front line remain well-equipped and trained. The bill provides $10.7 
billion for Customs and Border Protection. That is an increase of $118-
plus million above last year to support the largest operation force 
levels in the history of the country and to ensure around-the-clock 
border surveillance.
  Funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, is also boosted 
above last year, totaling $5.96 billion, including significant 
increases to detention bed capacity for both individuals and families, 
and full funding for E-Verify to ensure companies are hiring employees 
who can legally work in the U.S.
  In addition, the legislation provides funding to ensure the safety of 
our skies and our coasts. The Transportation Security Administration is 
funded at $4.8 billion, targeting funding to passenger security, cargo 
inspections, and intelligence.
  The Coast Guard receives $10 billion, denying the President's 
proposed cuts that would have gutted vital operations of the Coast 
Guard.
  The security of this Nation is also dependent on a secure cyber 
network, and recent headlines have only underscored our need to be 
prepared against new and advanced cyber attacks and foreign espionage. 
To improve our cybersecurity programs, the bill includes $753.2 million 
for these activities in the National Protection and Programs 
Directorate.
  The bill also includes increased funding to address critical lapses 
in Secret Service communications and training at the White House and to 
start preparations for the 2016 Presidential election.
  In addition to providing for these important security efforts, the 
Department bill also provides funding for disaster recovery and 
response. There is $7 billion in the bill for FEMA's programs, fully 
funding their requirements. It also provides $2.5 billion for important 
first responder grants that help States and communities act in the 
critical early moments following a disaster.
  And finally, Mr. Chair, in all, this legislation before us takes the 
necessary steps to ensure the responsible, transparent use of taxpayer 
dollars, including streamlining DHS operations, reducing overhead 
costs, and trimming funds for lower priority programs.
  I want to thank the gentleman from Texas, Chairman Carter, and the 
entire subcommittee and staff for their hard work in reaching that 
bipartisan agreement back in December which now is reflected in this 
bill on the floor, and to also thank the staff for their many hours 
putting this legislation into final form.
  Nearly halfway into the fiscal year, it is high time we get this bill 
enacted to strengthen our homeland security efforts, ensure our 
personnel are well-equipped and trained, and maintain our readiness for 
any threats that may come our way. We cannot put our security at risk 
with outdated funding levels and the uncertainty of a continuing 
resolution.
  So I urge my colleagues to vote responsibly for the security of our 
country and the security of our borders. I urge Members to vote ``yes'' 
on the bill.

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EXPLANATORY STATEMENT SUBMITTED BY MR. ROGERS OF KENTUCKY, CHAIRMAN OF 
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, REGARDING H.R. 240
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        DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2015

       The following is an explanation of the effects of this Act, 
     which makes appropriations for the Department of Homeland 
     Security for fiscal year 2015. Unless otherwise noted, 
     references to the House and Senate reports are to House 
     Report 113-481 and Senate Report 113-198, respectively. The 
     language and allocations contained in the House and Senate 
     reports warrant full compliance and carry the same weight as 
     language included in this explanatory statement, unless 
     specifically addressed to the contrary in the bill or this 
     explanatory statement. While repeating some language from the 
     House or Senate report for emphasis, this explanatory 
     statement does not intend to negate the language referred to 
     above unless expressly provided herein. When this explanatory 
     statement refers to the Committees or the Committees on 
     Appropriations, this reference is to the House Appropriations 
     Subcommittee on Homeland Security and the Senate 
     Appropriations Subcommittee on the Department of Homeland 
     Security.
       In cases where this explanatory statement directs the 
     submission of a report or a briefing, such report or briefing 
     shall be provided to the Committees not later than April 15, 
     2015, unless otherwise directed in the statement. Reports and 
     briefings required by the House or Senate report are due on 
     the dates specified; in instances where the date specified 
     occurred prior to the date of enactment of this Act, the 
     report or briefing shall be due not later than April 15, 
     2015.
       This explanatory statement refers to certain laws and 
     organizations as follows: the Implementing Recommendations of 
     the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, Public Law 110-53, is 
     referenced as the 9/11 Act; the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
     Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, Public Law 93-288, is 
     referenced as the Stafford Act; the Department of Homeland 
     Security is referenced as DHS or the Department; the 
     Government Accountability Office is referenced as GAO; and 
     the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Homeland 
     Security is referenced as OIG. In addition, ``full-time 
     equivalents'' shall be referred to as FTE; the DHS ``Working 
     Capital Fund'' shall be referred to as WCF; ``program, 
     project, and activity'' shall be referred to as PPA; and any 
     reference to ``the Secretary'' shall be interpreted to mean 
     the Secretary of Homeland Security.

                          Classified Programs

       Recommended adjustments to classified programs are 
     addressed in a classified annex accompanying this explanatory 
     statement.

            TITLE I--DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS

            Office of the Secretary and Executive Management

       A total of $132,573,000 is provided for the Office of the 
     Secretary and Executive Management (OSEM). The funding 
     provided addresses the Unity of Effort realignment requested 
     by the Department.
       The amount provided for this appropriation by PPA is as 
     follows:
       

                                                    ( $000 )
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                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
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Immediate Office of the Secretary.............................                   $3,950                   $7,939
Immediate Office of the Deputy Secretary......................                    1,751                    1,740
Office of the Chief of Staff..................................                    2,112                    2,782
Executive Secretary...........................................                    7,719                    5,589
Office of Policy..............................................                   38,470                   38,073
Office of Public Affairs......................................                    8,741                    5,591
Office of Legislative Affairs.................................                    5,583                    5,403
Office of Intergovernmental Affairs/Partnership and Engagement                    2,429                    9,848
Office of General Counsel.....................................                   21,310                   19,950
Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties...................                   22,003                   21,800
Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman................                    6,428                    5,825
Privacy Officer...............................................                    8,273                    8,033
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Total, Office of the Secretary and Executive Management...                 $128,769                 $132,573
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                          DHS Unity of Effort

       Throughout the bill, funds have been realigned to support 
     the Secretary's Unity of Effort initiative. The Department 
     shall provide frequent updates on progress and adoption of 
     new policies, procedures, and guidelines related to this 
     evolving effort.

                      Unaccompanied Alien Children

       The President's fiscal year 2015 budget request for DHS 
     failed to include funds necessary to address the arrival of 
     children and families who will be ferried to the Nation's 
     borders by a network of illicit transnational criminal 
     organizations and to manage the populations of these illegal 
     migrants who cross our border. This bill rectifies these 
     mistakes by adding $553,589,000 for costs related to 
     deterring such illegal migration, interdicting these 
     migrants, caring for and transporting an estimated 58,000 
     undocumented children to the custody of the Department of 
     Health and Human Services (HHS), and facilitating the 
     movement of thousands of undocumented families through 
     removal proceedings after they illegally cross the U.S. 
     border during this fiscal year.
       Both the House and Senate reports contain instructions 
     relative to the humanitarian crisis and law enforcement 
     nightmare created by the phenomenon of children crossing the 
     Southwest border. That guidance, which is aimed at being 
     prepared for another potential influx of children, remains as 
     valid today as it was in June 2014. To assure the Committees 
     that the directives are being carried out, DHS is directed to 
     coordinate an interagency update with other responsible 
     Federal agencies, including the Departments of State, HHS, 
     and Justice, that addresses the activities each agency is 
     undertaking to deter, prepare for, and manage a surge of 
     illegally migrating children and families. Quarterly 
     briefings to the Committees are required beginning January 
     15, 2015, to cover operational statistics on all 
     apprehensions, including unaccompanied alien children (UAC) 
     and families, detention, non-detention forms of supervision, 
     and removals. Furthermore, DHS shall notify the Committees 
     immediately in the event that UAC are held in U.S. Customs 
     and Border Protection (CBP) custody longer than 72 hours or 
     if UAC apprehensions surpass fiscal year 2013 levels.
       A general provision is included in Title V of this Act to 
     ensure the President's fiscal year 2016 budget request 
     addresses DHS needs related to UAC and families.

                  Reporting of Operational Statistics

       The Department shall continue quarterly submission of the 
     Border Security Status reports, as required by the Senate. 
     The requirement for Detention and Removal Operations reports 
     is discontinued, as further discussed under the U.S. 
     Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) heading later in 
     this statement.
       In addition, the Department is directed to continue 
     improving its public reporting of immigration enforcement and 
     border security operations statistics both in terms of 
     completeness and timeliness. The Department shall ensure that 
     immigration enforcement data is collected and reported to 
     reflect the entire lifecycle from encounter through removal 
     and return, not just starting with apprehension and arrest. 
     As directed in the Senate report, the Department and the 
     relevant components shall brief the Committees on these 
     efforts.

                       Joint Requirements Council

       An additional $4,000,000 is provided in the Immediate 
     Office of the Secretary for the newly created Joint 
     Requirements Council. The Department shall brief the 
     Committees regularly on the status and activities of the 
     Council.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Coast Guard Aviation Commonality

       As referenced in the House report, the Department shall 
     continue to pursue joint aviation requirements, as 
     applicable, for the Coast Guard and CBP. Both components 
     shall maximize commonality between their aircraft fleets. 
     Further, CBP shall develop a flying hour program using the 
     Coast Guard program as a model.

                   Over-Classification of Information

       When the Department submits a document to the Committees 
     that is classified for official use only (FOUO), the document 
     shall include specific reasons for the classification based 
     on requirements detailed in DHS Management Directive 11042.1, 
     which provides guidance for safeguarding sensitive but 
     unclassified FOUO information. The signatory of each document 
     will be held accountable for verifying the classification.

                     International Costs Reduction

       As referenced in the Senate report, the Department is to 
     develop a plan with the goal of reducing international 
     operations costs by up to 10 percent in fiscal year 2015. DHS 
     shall brief the Committees not later than 60 days after the 
     date of enactment of this Act on this plan, including efforts 
     to reduce unnecessary overlap and redundancies in its attache 
     laydown while maintaining a strong presence internationally.

               Expenditure Plans in Budget Justification

       As part of the justification accompanying the President's 
     budget proposal for fiscal year 2016, the Secretary shall 
     include expenditure plans for fiscal year 2016 for the Office 
     of Policy, the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs/
     Partnership and Engagement, the Office for Civil Rights and 
     Civil Liberties (OCRCL), the Citizenship and Immigration 
     Services Ombudsman, and the Office of Privacy.

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            Situational Awareness of Illegal Border Activity

       As directed in both the House and Senate reports, the 
     Secretary shall submit to the Committees the results of a 
     review and draft plan for situational awareness along the 
     Southwest border and in the associated maritime environment 
     not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this 
     Act. The effort may include attaining a common operating 
     picture but must include enabling operational control through 
     full and persistent situational awareness.

              Office of the Under Secretary for Management

       A total of $187,503,000 is provided for the Office of the 
     Under Secretary for Management (USM). The funding provided 
     fully incorporates the Unity of Effort realignment requested 
     by the Department. Each office shall prioritize efforts 
     within the amount provided.
       The amount provided for this appropriation by PPA is as 
     follows:

 
                                                    ( $000 )
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                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
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Immediate Office of the Under Secretary for Management........                   $2,757                   $2,740
Office of the Chief Security Officer..........................                   63,597                   64,308
Office of the Chief Procurement Officer.......................                   64,036                   60,107
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal..............................................                  130,390                  127,155
Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer:
    Salaries and Expenses.....................................                   21,253                   20,944
    Human Resources Information Technology....................                    9,878                    6,000
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal..............................................                   31,131                   26,944
Office of the Chief Readiness Support Officer:
    Salaries and Expenses.....................................                   29,272                   28,911
    Nebraska Avenue Complex...................................                    4,493                    4,493
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal..............................................                   33,765                   33,404
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Total, Office of the Under Secretary for Management.......                 $195,286                 $187,503
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                       Headquarters Consolidation

       Pursuant to a general provision in Title V of this Act, 
     $48,600,000 is provided for headquarters consolidation and 
     associated operational support. Not later than 60 days after 
     the date of enactment of this Act, the USM shall submit to 
     the Committees an expenditure plan detailing how this funding 
     will be allocated, including revised schedule and cost 
     estimates for the headquarters consolidation project. 
     Quarterly briefings are required on headquarters and mission 
     support consolidation activities, which should highlight any 
     deviation from the expenditure plan. The briefings shall also 
     discuss progress on lease replacement and consolidation 
     efforts.

               Program Accountability and Risk Management

       In lieu of direction in the House report regarding a new 
     PPA for the Office of Program Accountability and Risk 
     Management, the Department shall display funding levels and a 
     program justification for this office within the President's 
     budget proposal for fiscal year 2016.

                Comprehensive Acquisition Status Report

       The Comprehensive Acquisition Status Report shall be 
     submitted as a part of the justification documents 
     accompanying the President's budget proposal for fiscal year 
     2016 and shall contain all programs on the major acquisition 
     oversight list and others of special interest. Funding 
     amounts shall be displayed by appropriation and PPA. Further, 
     the Department shall work with the Committees to post a non-
     FOUO version to the Department's website not later than 180 
     days after the date of enactment of this Act.

                   Procurement of Secure Credentials

       As described in the House report, there is an ongoing GAO 
     study regarding the production of secure credentials across 
     the government. To that end, the Office of the Chief 
     Procurement Officer (OCPO) shall brief the Committees within 
     90 days of the date of enactment of this Act on the 
     Department's process for procuring secure credentials, 
     including how OCPO decides whether to procure such products 
     from either a private entity or a government agency and how 
     it considers both cost and the security features of the 
     products. Prior to the completion of the GAO study, per 
     section 507 of this Act, the Department shall notify the 
     Committees in writing three days prior to contracting with a 
     private entity or signing an agreement with a government 
     agency to requisition secure credentials and, if applicable, 
     to provide an analysis showing how the security of the 
     products will be equal to or greater than that of products 
     that could be procured from private industry at a similar 
     cost.

                GAO Review of Major Acquisition Programs

       As directed in the Senate report, GAO shall develop a plan 
     for ongoing reviews of DHS' major acquisition projects.

                          Procurement Process

       As directed in the Senate report, the Under Secretary shall 
     outline the procurement process from the beginning when a 
     need is identified through contract award, extension, or 
     modification, including any protest actions or other delays. 
     The Under Secretary shall provide a briefing on the effort to 
     the Committees not later than 120 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act. As directed in the Senate report, the 
     role of the Component Acquisition Executive shall also be 
     addressed.

                             Hiring Delays

       DHS shall report to the Committees not later than 60 days 
     after the date of enactment of this Act on a strategy for 
     reducing the time required for hiring personnel, and shall 
     provide quarterly data on hiring timelines by component, as 
     directed in the Senate report.

                 Office of the Chief Financial Officer

       A total of $52,020,000 is provided for the Office of the 
     Chief Financial Officer (OCFO), which includes staffing and 
     funds realigned to support the Secretary's Unity of Effort 
     initiative. It is assumed that any cost of living adjustment 
     for Federal employees directed by the President for fiscal 
     year 2015 will be funded from within the amounts provided for 
     each appropriation in this Act.

                    Obligation and Expenditure Plans

       The statement includes directives for specified components 
     to brief the Committees on obligation and expenditure plans. 
     The briefings shall reflect enacted appropriations; include 
     the allocation of undistributed appropriations among and 
     within PPAs; and specify completed transfer and reprogramming 
     actions (pursuant to section 503 of this Act and previous 
     appropriations Acts for DHS), including funds that have been 
     reprogrammed below the notification threshold.
       Funding in the briefs shall be designated by PPA and cost 
     code by quarter, and shall include the amount of funds 
     planned to be carried over into the next fiscal year. For 
     multi-year appropriations, the briefs shall detail the status 
     of each appropriation by source year. In addition, the briefs 
     shall identify the current numbers of onboard personnel by 
     PPA, along with delineations of the numbers of personnel 
     newly hired or lost to attrition since the beginning of the 
     fiscal year or since the most recent report, as appropriate. 
     These briefings shall be provided not later than 45 days 
     after the date of enactment of this Act and on a quarterly 
     basis thereafter to compare actual obligations against the 
     initial plans.

                    Financial Systems Modernization

       The CFO is directed to maintain frequent communications 
     with the Committees on its Financial Systems Modernization 
     (FSM) efforts, as directed in the House and Senate reports. A 
     general provision is included in Title V of this Act to fund 
     FSM activities, enabling the Secretary to allocate resources 
     according to fluctuations in the FSM program execution plan. 
     In lieu of the direction in the House report, the CFO shall 
     submit a detailed expenditure plan for FSM not later than 45 
     days after the date of enactment of this Act.

                Office of the Chief Information Officer

       A total of $288,122,000 is provided for the Office of the 
     Chief Information Officer (OCIO), of which $189,094,000 is 
     available until September 30, 2016. The funding provided 
     fully incorporates the realignment to support the Secretary's 
     Unity of Effort initiative. An additional $1,000,000 is 
     provided for the DHS Data Framework initiative, and an 
     additional $500,000 is provided for cyber remediation tools, 
     as outlined in the House report. The amount provided for this 
     appropriation by PPA is as follows:

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                                                    ( $000 )
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                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
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Salaries and Expenses.........................................                  $95,444                  $99,028
Information Technology Services...............................                   38,627                   68,298
Infrastructure and Security Activities........................                   52,140                   52,640
Homeland Secure Data Network..................................                   70,132                   68,156
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Total, Office of the Chief Information Officer............                 $256,343                 $288,122
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                            Unity of Effort

       To support the Department's Unity of Effort initiative, a 
     total of $32,621,000 and 25 FTE are realigned from Analysis 
     and Operations to OCIO for the Homeland Security Information 
     Network Program and the Common Operating Picture.

            Sharing and Safeguarding Classified Information

       As directed in House and Senate reports and not later than 
     90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the CIO 
     shall brief the Committees on its program execution and 
     strategy to protect national security information held by 
     DHS, including the cost and schedule details of the Homeland 
     Secure Data Network, Identity Credential Access Management 
     programs, and other large or multi-agency projects. The 
     briefing shall also include details on other steps the 
     Department is taking to safeguard classified information.

                        Analysis and Operations

       A total of $255,804,000 is provided for Analysis and 
     Operations, of which $102,479,000 shall remain available 
     until September 30, 2016. The funding provided fully 
     incorporates the Unity of Effort realignment requested by the 
     Department. Other funding details are included within the 
     classified annex accompanying this explanatory statement.

                    Criminal Intelligence Enterprise

       The Committees encourage Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) to 
     coordinate with the Chiefs of Police and Sheriffs from the 
     Nation's major urban areas to strengthen the Criminal 
     Intelligence Enterprise, which is aimed at integrating state 
     and local criminal intelligence and counterterrorism 
     operations. I&A is to brief the Committees not later than 60 
     days after the date of enactment of this Act on its efforts 
     to date and plans for fiscal year 2015.

                      Office of Inspector General

       A total of $142,617,000 is provided for the OIG, including 
     $118,617,000 in direct appropriations and $24,000,000 
     transferred from the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
     (FEMA) Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) for audits and 
     investigations related to the DRF. The level of OIG funding 
     has been reduced from the budget request for reasons outlined 
     in the Senate report as well as to reflect more realistic 
     expectations for hiring in fiscal year 2015. The OIG is 
     directed to submit an expenditure plan for all fiscal year 
     2015 funds not later than 30 days after the date of enactment 
     of this Act and, for fiscal year 2016 and future years, to 
     submit an expenditure plan within its annual budget 
     justification. The OIG is directed to include DRF transfers 
     in the CFO's monthly budget execution reports submitted to 
     the Committees, which shall satisfy the requirements for 
     notification of DRF transfers under a general provision in 
     Title V of this Act.

          TITLE II--SECURITY, ENFORCEMENT, AND INVESTIGATIONS

                   U.S. Customs and Border Protection


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       A total of $8,459,657,000 is provided for Salaries and 
     Expenses. The amount provided for this appropriation by PPA 
     is as follows:

 
                                                    ( $000 )
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                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
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Headquarters, Management, and Administration:
    Commissioner..............................................                  $27,245                  $27,151
    Chief Counsel.............................................                   45,663                   45,483
    Congressional Affairs.....................................                    2,514                    2,504
    Internal Affairs..........................................                  140,141                  139,493
    Public Affairs............................................                   13,064                   13,009
    Training and Development..................................                   71,926                   71,585
    Technology, Innovation, and Acquisition...................                   25,374                   25,277
    Intelligence/Investigative Liaison........................                   61,512                   62,235
    Administration............................................                  386,793                  382,870
    Rent......................................................                  409,490                  598,593
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Subtotal, Headquarters, Management, and Administration....                1,183,722                1,368,200
Border Security Inspections and Trade Facilitation:
    Inspections, Trade, and Travel Facilitation at Ports of                   2,830,872                2,810,524
     Entry....................................................
    Harbor Maintenance Fee Collection (Trust Fund)............                    3,274                    3,274
    International Cargo Screening.............................                   69,173                   68,902
    Other International Programs..............................                   25,706                   25,548
    Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism...............                   40,841                   41,619
    Trusted Traveler Programs.................................                    5,811                    5,811
    Inspection and Detection Technology Investments...........                  123,866                  122,811
    National Targeting Center.................................                   70,592                   74,623
    Training..................................................                   33,906                   33,880
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Subtotal, Border Security Inspections and Trade                           3,204,041                3,186,992
     Facilitation.............................................
Border Security and Control between Ports of Entry:
    Border Security and Control...............................                3,882,015                3,848,074
    Training..................................................                   56,608                   56,391
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Subtotal, Border Security and Control between Ports of                    3,938,623                3,904,465
     Entry....................................................
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
        Total.................................................               $8,326,386               $8,459,657
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

              Headquarters, Management, and Administration

       CBP's Chief Financial Officer is directed to brief the 
     Committees on a plan for the obligation and expenditure of 
     funds for all CBP accounts, as specified under Title I of 
     this statement, to include data previously provided in its 
     financial plans. As proposed by the House, $1,000,000 is 
     provided to the Office of Intelligence and Investigative 
     Liaison (OIIL) for additional analysts to support the Air and 
     Marine Operations Center's (AMOC) activities, particularly 
     analysis of feeds from unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). CBP 
     shall ensure that such activities are aligned with other 
     situational awareness efforts at CBP and the DHS Unity of 
     Effort initiative.
       The total amount provided reflects a transfer from the 
     Construction and Facility Management account into the Rent 
     PPA because the Administration has determined that GSA will 
     not delegate authority to CBP to manage certain land ports of 
     entry.

                    Conduct and Integrity Oversight

       The Secretary announced the delegation of criminal 
     misconduct investigative authority on September 18, 2014. 
     This authority permits CBP to work side by side, as 
     appropriate, with other Federal investigative agencies 
     looking into alleged criminal conduct by CBP employees, which 
     should increase workforce accountability and enable CBP 
     leadership to have greater awareness of conduct and integrity 
     issues. CBP is directed to provide regular updates as it 
     converts internal affairs investigators to criminal 
     investigators as part of this transition. Further, the Deputy 
     Secretary shall continue to oversee joint coordination of 
     integrity oversight, as discussed in the Senate report.

           Border Security Inspections and Trade Facilitation

       Border Security Inspections and Trade Facilitation is 
     funded at $3,186,992,000, of which $2,810,524,000 is for 
     Inspections, Trade, and Travel Facilitation at Ports of 
     Entry, including sufficient funding to support a base of 
     23,775 CBP officers. The bill provides $30,000,000 as two-
     year funding based on CBP's current hiring schedule. As 
     requested, $8,300,000 is provided for the CBP Mobile Program 
     and $3,000,000 is added for a Biometric Exit Mobile 
     application demonstration at two airports. To expand the 
     Arrival and Departure Information System, $9,900,000 is 
     included instead of $11,800,000 as proposed by the House and 
     $8,000,000 as proposed by the

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     Senate. A total of $41,619,000 is provided for the Customs-
     Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program, which 
     provides sufficient funds to proceed with the web portal 
     project. As discussed in the Senate report, of the total 
     amount provided for CBP Salaries and Expenses, $10,000,000 
     shall be used for sustaining traveler process enhancements 
     initiated in Public Law 113-76. To support counter-network 
     capabilities at the National Targeting Center (NTC), 
     $4,500,000 is provided for advanced analysis and 
     visualization tools and requirements development instead of 
     $9,000,000 as proposed by the House. While funded in the NTC 
     PPA, this investment shall support strategic analysis 
     capabilities across CBP.
       To deal with the fluctuations of facilitating trade and 
     securing travel, CBP's staffing practices--to include hiring, 
     training, and assignments--must be flexible and nimble. While 
     the resource allocation model has greatly improved CBP's 
     ability to make informed staffing decisions, CBP shall update 
     its resource allocation model, taking into account any newly 
     identified gaps, the onboarding of 2,000 CBP officers added 
     by the fiscal year 2014 Act, and the timeline for training 
     and deploying the new personnel to their respective 
     assignments. An updated model shall specifically identify CBP 
     officer staffing requirements for the Northern border. Any 
     modifications to the model shall be described in the fiscal 
     year 2016 budget submission.
       Both the House and Senate reports include extensive 
     language about ways to reduce wait times at ports of entry. 
     As always, this objective must be carefully balanced against 
     U.S. security interests and the need to safeguard travelers 
     and the general public from terrorism. To underscore the 
     importance of these missions, the agreement highlights the 
     following guidance in both the House and Senate reports. CBP 
     shall carry out the following within 90 days of the date of 
     enactment of this Act:
       1) Develop a plan to accelerate the hiring process for CBP 
     officers, as directed in the Senate report.
       2) Brief the Committees on the implementation and execution 
     of the public-private partnership and donation authority 
     pilots authorized under section 560 of Public Law 113-6 and 
     section 559 of Public Law 113-76 and continued in this Act, 
     with semi-annual briefings thereafter.
       3) Provide a report to the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations, the House Committee on Homeland Security, and 
     the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
     Affairs describing the effects of business transformation 
     initiatives on reducing passenger wait times, including the 
     impact of technologies that are not dependent on the activity 
     of CBP personnel. The report should provide an analysis of 
     the effectiveness of such initiatives and identify locations 
     CBP would prioritize for expansion.
       4) Brief the Committees on efforts to improve commercial 
     vehicle wait time data collection and trade facilitation at 
     land ports of entry.
       5) Brief the Committees on the status of implementing 
     section 571 of Public Law 113-76, which requires the 
     development of passenger wait time performance metrics and 
     operational work plans to reduce passenger wait times at 
     ports of entry with the highest passenger volume and wait 
     times. The briefing shall include an action plan and proposed 
     timelines for innovative activities, as proposed in the 
     Senate report.
       6) Brief the Committees on the effect of the Beyond the 
     Border Action Plan on reducing wait times at, and 
     streamlining the flow of trade across, the Northern border.
       7) Brief the Committees on the status of the Air Entry/Exit 
     Re-engineering project, its implications for land and sea 
     ports in urban and rural areas, and how CBP is working with 
     the Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) to examine 
     new technologies that can be integrated with DHS' backend 
     biometric system, IDENT.
       8) Provide an update on the effectiveness of non-intrusive 
     inspection (NII) technology at ports of entry, including 
     seizures resulting from NII exams, in the multi-year 
     investment and management plan for inspection and detection 
     technology required by Public Law 112-74 and continued in a 
     general provision in Title V of this Act.

                           Trade Enforcement

       The House and Senate reports contain guidance on cargo 
     inspection and commercial fraud enforcement, including 
     directives related to circumvention of duties and 
     misclassification of entries of goods from China; collection 
     of outstanding duties; the use of single entry transaction 
     bonds; coordination with the Departments of the Treasury and 
     Commerce on the use of new shipper reviews and improvement of 
     liquidation instructions; membership on the Advisory 
     Committee on Commercial Operations; uncollected antidumping 
     and countervailing duty orders on duties in excess of 
     $25,000,000 assessed by single transaction bonds; and 
     enhanced trade enforcement efforts. CBP shall adhere to these 
     directives and, to the extent practicable, publish the 
     required report on the collection of outstanding duties on 
     the CBP website.
       The Commissioner is directed to pursue, through all 
     possible means, the dispersal of interest payments owed to 
     injured parties who have obtained funds under the Continued 
     Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act. That law states that ``the 
     Commissioner shall distribute all funds from assessed duties 
     received in the preceding fiscal year to affected domestic 
     producers,'' which has been understood to mean interest 
     accrued from past duties identified and dispersed to injured 
     parties. CBP shall provide a report on all interest payments 
     owed to injured parties between the beginning of 2001 and the 
     end of 2014, along with a path forward for dispersing such 
     funds to the injured parties.

                               Jones Act

       CBP is directed to brief the Committees on the steps it is 
     taking to adhere to the guidance in the Senate report with 
     regard to the Jones Act.

           Border Security and Control between Ports of Entry

       Border Security and Control between Ports of Entry is 
     funded at $3,904,465,000, which includes $3,848,074,000 for 
     Border Security and Control and $56,391,000 for training. As 
     proposed by the House, $499,000 is included for an additional 
     Horse Patrol Unit. The total funding level supports the 
     legislatively-mandated floor of not less than 21,370 Border 
     Patrol agents. Because CBP is currently well below the 
     mandated level, CBP is directed to take all possible steps to 
     reach the funded and operationally necessary staffing level. 
     Recognizing that the Administration failed to request funds 
     sufficient to care for UAC and family units while in Border 
     Patrol custody, CBP shall utilize excess funding currently 
     allocated to Salaries and Expenses within this PPA to support 
     that need.
       As proposed by the Senate, $10,000,000 is for the 
     development and operation of the National Border Geo-
     Intelligence Strategy (NBGIS). CBP must continue to improve 
     its situational awareness and analytic capabilities to secure 
     the border at and between the ports of entry and along the 
     approaches to the United States by land, air, and sea. CBP 
     shall ensure that the investments made in the NBGIS align 
     with other critical investments in the NTC, AMOC, and OIIL, 
     and shall brief the Committees on how data collected through 
     the NBGIS will assist CBP and other government entities.
       As directed in the House report, CBP shall continue to 
     issue statistics on individuals held in CBP custody and to 
     publish such statistics in the DHS annual statistical 
     yearbook.
       Both the House and Senate reports included direction to DHS 
     to review ICE and CBP repatriation policies and practices to 
     ensure deportations of vulnerable individuals are conducted 
     humanely and safely. The review shall be completed within 150 
     days after the date of enactment of this Act instead of 180 
     days as proposed by the House and 120 days as proposed by the 
     Senate.
       Recently, CBP initiated a pilot program to determine 
     whether using body-worn cameras can reduce the use of 
     unnecessary force and protect officers and agents from 
     allegations of abuse that may be unfounded. As required in 
     the House report, CBP shall provide a report to the 
     Committees on the results of the pilot within 60 days of its 
     completion.


                        AUTOMATION MODERNIZATION

       A total of $808,169,000 is provided for Automation 
     Modernization. CBP and ICE shall brief the Committees semi-
     annually on TECS modernization, and CBP shall brief the 
     Committees on Automated Commercial Environment modernization 
     semi-annually. The amount provided for this appropriation by 
     PPA is as follows:

 
                                                    ( $000 )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Information Technology........................................                 $365,700                 $362,094
Automated Targeting Systems...................................                  109,273                  109,230
Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)/International Trade                      141,061                  140,970
 Data System (ITDS)...........................................
Current Operations Protection and Processing Support (COPPS)..                  196,376                  195,875
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Total.....................................................                 $812,410                 $808,169
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

        BORDER SECURITY FENCING, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND TECHNOLOGY

       A total of $382,466,000 is provided for Border Security 
     Fencing, Infrastructure, and Technology (BSFIT). As 
     requested, $12,200,000 is provided for Northern border 
     technology and $35,600,000 is provided for tethered aerostat 
     radar systems. An additional $15,000,000 for Development and 
     Deployment and $5,000,000 for Operations and Maintenance is 
     provided for unfunded priorities cited in the House report. 
     Within the resources provided, CBP

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     shall resume and complete the communications study referenced 
     in the House report. CBP shall also detail the allocation of 
     BSFIT funds in its obligation and expenditure plan briefings, 
     as specified under Title I of this statement.
       The amount provided for this appropriation by PPA is as 
     follows:

 
                                                    ( $000 )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Development and Deployment....................................                 $110,594                 $125,594
Operations and Maintenance....................................                  251,872                  256,872
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Total.....................................................                 $362,466                 $382,466
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                       AIR AND MARINE OPERATIONS

       A total of $750,469,000 is provided for Air and Marine 
     Operations. The amount provided for this appropriation by PPA 
     is as follows:

 
                                                    ( $000 )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Salaries and Expenses.........................................                 $293,016                 $299,800
Operations and Maintenance....................................                  362,669                  397,669
Procurement...................................................                   53,000                   53,000
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Total.....................................................                 $708,685                 $750,469
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

       The amount provided for Salaries and Expenses includes 
     $5,900,000 to increase staffing at the AMOC to levels 
     sufficient to maintain 24/7 air and marine surveillance 
     coverage of the United States as well as $350,000 for 
     Intelligence Research Analysts; and $3,000,000 to support 
     95,000 flight hours. The Operations and Maintenance PPA is 
     increased by $28,300,000 to support this number of flight 
     hours. In addition, $3,000,000 is for multi-role enforcement 
     aircraft (MEA) spare parts, $2,000,000 is for upgrades to 
     unmanned aircraft system ground control stations, and 
     $1,350,000 is for enhancements to AMOC's Processing, 
     Exploitation, and Dissemination cell and Air and Marine 
     Operating Surveillance System. As requested, $43,700,000 is 
     provided for procurement of two MEA and $9,300,000 is for 
     sensor upgrades.
       The bill continues a provision included in the Senate bill 
     requiring CBP to submit any changes to its five-year 
     Strategic Air and Marine Plan not later than 90 days after 
     the date of enactment of this Act.
       Based on concerns addressed in both the House and Senate 
     reports, CBP initiated a review of how to improve its air and 
     marine readiness posture to adequately support mission needs. 
     In coordination with the Department's Aviation Governance 
     Board (AGB), CBP shall establish policies and define 
     responsibilities for the development and management of a CBP 
     aircraft flight hour and marine vessel underway hour program, 
     which shall be finalized not later than December 31, 2015. In 
     addition, CBP shall continue to work with the AGB to 
     formalize and institutionalize a joint requirements process 
     tailored to meet law enforcement operational needs and 
     leverage existing capabilities across the Department, 
     including depot level maintenance facilities. CBP shall 
     provide quarterly progress reviews on this endeavor to the 
     Committees beginning not later than February 1, 2015.
       CBP's AMOC is a national asset, critical to fulfilling the 
     needs of the United States for air and marine domain 
     awareness. It is clear, however, that the Department has not 
     fully utilized this critical resource. Therefore, the DHS 
     Deputy's Management Action Group (DMAG) shall review AMOC's 
     current mission and its roles and responsibilities to 
     determine whether they require modification to support DHS' 
     strategic objective of protecting all approaches--air, land, 
     and sea--to U.S. borders. By December 1, 2015, the DMAG shall 
     make recommendations to the Secretary on how to rectify 
     identified gaps in capability and provide guidance to all DHS 
     components on how best to leverage AMOC's existing 
     capabilities so they enhance DHS' operational Unity of 
     Effort. The DMAG review and recommendations shall also 
     address direction in the House report regarding personnel 
     requirements and full staffing of AMOC, as well as 
     finalization of an AMOC charter, although no report on the 
     charter is required. The Department and CBP are instructed to 
     provide quarterly progress reviews to the Committees 
     beginning March 1, 2015, which shall include an update on 
     progress made to connect AMOC to SIPRnet, as directed in the 
     House report.


                 CONSTRUCTION AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

       A total of $288,821,000 is provided for Construction and 
     Facilities Management, including $5,100,000 for upgrading 
     Border Patrol facilities instead of $4,100,000 as proposed by 
     the Senate. No increase is provided for the McAllen Border 
     Patrol Station, as it has already been reactivated for use in 
     transitioning UAC to HHS custody.
       The amount provided reflects a transfer from this account 
     of $189,103,000 to the Rent PPA in the Salaries and Expenses 
     appropriation because the Administration has determined that 
     GSA will not be delegating authority to CBP for management of 
     certain land ports of entry. The amount provided for this 
     appropriation by PPA is as follows:

 
                                                    ( $000 )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Facilities Construction and Sustainment.......................                 $385,137                 $205,393
Program Oversight and Management..............................                   97,068                   83,428
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Total.....................................................                 $482,205                 $288,821
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       A total of $5,932,756,000 is provided for Salaries and 
     Expenses, which reflects significant increases above the 
     request totaling $944,691,000. These increases are provided 
     to address excessive shortfalls in the President's budget 
     request due to poor budgeting practices, deal with needs 
     related to the surge in unaccompanied children and families 
     with children coming across the Southwest border, and restore 
     proposed cuts to staffing, operations, investigations, and 
     other programs critical to national security.
       ICE is directed to brief the Committees on a plan for the 
     obligation and expenditure of funds and provide quarterly 
     updates, as specified under Title I of this statement. As a 
     part of these briefings, ICE shall continue to provide data 
     on investigative activities and expenditures.
       The amount provided for this appropriation by PPA is as 
     follows:

 
                                                    ( $000 )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Headquarters Management and Administration:
    Personnel Compensation and Benefits, Services, and Other                   $198,602                 $197,002
     Costs....................................................
    Headquarters Managed IT Investment........................                  150,927                  150,419
                                                               -------------------------------------------------

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        Subtotal, Headquarters Management and Administration..                  349,529                  347,421
Legal Proceedings.............................................                  214,731                  217,393
Investigations:
    Domestic Investigations...................................                1,644,552                1,699,811
    International Investigations:
        International Operations..............................                  101,228                  110,682
        Visa Security Program.................................                   31,854                   49,526
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
            Subtotal, International Investigations............                  133,082                  160,208
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Investigations..............................                1,777,634                1,860,019
Intelligence..................................................                   77,045                   76,479
Enforcement and Removal Operations:
    Custody Operations........................................                1,791,913                2,532,593
    Fugitive Operations.......................................                  131,591                  142,615
    Criminal Alien Program....................................                  322,407                  327,223
    Alternatives to Detention.................................                   94,106                  109,740
    Transportation and Removal Program........................                  229,109                  319,273
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Enforcement and Removal Operations..........                2,569,126                3,431,444
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Total, Salaries and Expenses..............................               $4,988,065               $5,932,756
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                           Legal Proceedings

       A total of $217,393,000 is provided for Legal Proceedings, 
     including funds to hire 12 full-time personnel to process 
     Freedom of Information Act submissions, as requested. In 
     addition, an increase of $4,500,000 is provided to hire 
     additional attorneys to expedite the immigration court 
     docket.

                        Domestic Investigations

       A total of $1,699,811,000 is provided for Domestic 
     Investigations, including an increase of $5,700,000 to 
     annualize the costs of investigative staffing enhancements 
     funded in fiscal year 2014. The bill provides an increase of 
     $62,000,000 to hire additional agents and mission support 
     staff to enhance ICE's ability to conduct investigations in 
     high-priority mission areas, such as human smuggling and 
     trafficking, including Operation Torrent Divide; child 
     exploitation, including Operation Angel Watch; antidumping 
     and countervailing duties, including illegally dumped 
     seafood; counter-proliferation; gang activity; and drug 
     smuggling. ICE shall submit a fiscal year 2016 budget request 
     that includes funds sufficient to annualize the costs of 
     prior year staff enhancements. In addition, ICE is directed 
     to develop a workforce model to better inform requirements 
     for investigative staffing, including the necessary balance 
     of special agents and mission support personnel.
       ICE is directed to train at least two classes of veterans 
     through the Human Exploitation Rescue Operative (HERO) Child-
     Rescue Corps to support child exploitation investigations and 
     to brief the Committees on its efforts not later than 180 
     days after the date of enactment of this Act, including 
     efforts to hire HERO graduates or to help place them with 
     other Federal, state, or local agencies with related 
     missions.
       Within the total, the bill provides not less than 
     $15,000,000 for intellectual property rights and commercial 
     trade fraud investigations, including activities at the 
     National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center.
       In lieu of the operational reporting requirement in the 
     House report, ICE is directed to work with the Committees on 
     a format for submitting quarterly updates on operations not 
     later than 15 days after the end of each quarter.

                      International Investigations

       A total of $160,208,000 is provided for International 
     Investigations. Within the total, an increase of $7,113,000 
     is included to fund increased State Department service fees; 
     an increase of $12,000,000 is provided to expand the Visa 
     Security Program to high-threat countries; and an increase of 
     $3,500,000 is provided to support enhancements to the PATRIOT 
     information technology system for visa vetting. In support of 
     ICE's international efforts to counter the humanitarian 
     crisis caused by the influx of UAC, the bill also provides 
     increases of $1,764,000 to double the number of vetted units 
     in Central America and $3,373,000 to expand human smuggling 
     investigations.

                   Enforcement and Removal Operations

       A total of $3,431,444,000 is provided for Enforcement and 
     Removal Operations (ERO), including full funding to support 
     all 287(g) memoranda of understanding.
       The bill does not include funds for ICE's efforts to 
     establish a unified career path for ERO frontline law 
     enforcement positions and ensure pay parity in the ERO 
     workforce. Such funds were not requested by the President and 
     are not affordable due to other immigration enforcement and 
     border security budget shortfalls.
       In lieu of the ERO quarterly data required by the Senate 
     report, ICE is directed to provide regular updates on the 
     detained and non-detained populations subject to removal 
     proceedings, including details on enforcement priority level, 
     and to work with the Committees on the format and content of 
     such updates.
       ICE is directed to continue to submit semi-annual reports 
     on the deportation of parents of U.S.-born citizens.

                           Custody Operations

       A total of $2,532,593,000 is provided for Custody 
     Operations. Because the fiscal year 2015 budget request 
     assumed an artificially low cost per detention bed, it failed 
     to propose funding sufficient to support even the 30,539 beds 
     included in the request, much less the 34,000 detention beds 
     required in annual appropriations Acts. This type of flawed 
     budgeting practice is not credible, and forces the Committees 
     to rectify the shortfall at considerable expense to other 
     critical ICE and DHS priorities. Consequently, an increase of 
     $385,103,000 above the request is required to maintain 34,000 
     beds. DHS is directed to present a fiscal year 2016 budget 
     request for ICE that uses accurate cost estimates, and to 
     include details in the budget justification material that 
     rigorously support those estimates. The Department must stop 
     employing misleading and operationally harmful budgeting 
     gimmicks.
       The bill also provides an increase of $362,155,000 to 
     support additional staffing and detention capacity secured by 
     ICE in response to the significant growth in family units 
     crossing the Southwest border illegally during fiscal year 
     2014, which is intended to serve as a deterrent to future 
     illegal migration. ICE shall ensure these facilities meet all 
     ICE Family Residential Standards and shall immediately notify 
     the Committees of any material violations of such standards.

                          Fugitive Operations

       A total of $142,615,000 is provided for Fugitive 
     Operations, including $12,100,000 above the request to hire 
     additional officers and restore staffing to fiscal year 2013 
     levels.

                         Criminal Alien Program

       A total of $327,223,000 is provided for the Criminal Alien 
     Program, including an increase of $7,500,000 to mitigate the 
     potential public safety challenge posed by the growing number 
     of jurisdictions choosing not to honor ICE detainers on 
     illegal aliens in their custody. Of primary concern is the 
     release of aliens subject to removal who may pose a danger to 
     the community, requiring ICE to expend additional resources 
     and putting ICE personnel at greater risk when bringing the 
     aliens back into custody. ICE is directed to publish on its 
     website the list of jurisdictions failing to honor ICE 
     detainers and to include details on individuals released as a 
     result of these decisions, segmented by jurisdiction and 
     level of criminality.

                       Alternatives to Detention

       A total of $109,740,000 is provided for the Alternatives to 
     Detention (ATD) program, including an increase of $15,878,000 
     to support the supervision of family units placed into 
     removal proceedings after illegally crossing the border.
       In recent years, ICE has taken steps to improve ATD cost-
     effectiveness through better guidance to ERO officers and 
     agents on the factors to consider when determining 
     appropriate placements in ATD. This has included guidance on 
     when enrollment in ATD, transition to lower levels of 
     supervision, or re-enrollment in ATD may be more or less 
     effective depending on the particular stage in the removal 
     process. ICE has also established additional performance 
     measures to assess compliance with program requirements.
       Beginning 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
     ICE shall provide semi-annual briefings to the Committees on 
     compliance rates for both the full-service and the 
     technology-only ATD programs. These briefings shall include 
     evaluations of the ATD program by field office; a description 
     of any plans for expansion of the program to additional field 
     offices; and an update on the status of responding to 
     recommendations by GAO (GAO-15-26) to collect additional 
     compliance data and make better use of collected data to 
     assess field office implementation of program guidance. In 
     addition, in order to increase transparency on the use of 
     ATD, ICE is expected to post on its website any contractor 
     evaluations or OIG reports related to the program.

                   Transportation and Removal Program

       A total of $319,273,000 is provided for the Transportation 
     and Removal Program. The

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     amount includes an increase of $26,000,000 to support the 
     requirement to maintain 34,000 detention beds, and an 
     increase of $64,220,000 to support the transportation and 
     removal costs for UAC and family units anticipated to enter 
     the United States illegally in fiscal year 2015.

                         License Plate Readers

       ICE is directed to establish, in coordination with OCRCL, 
     an internal review process for any solicitation or request 
     for proposal of a National License Plate Recognition database 
     or other similar project, and to brief the Committees on this 
     review process not later than 30 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act. ICE is directed to include in the 
     review process notification to the Committees prior to 
     obligation of any funds for such a database or any similar 
     project. Further, for any such database being established, 
     ICE shall undertake the required privacy impact assessment.


                        AUTOMATION MODERNIZATION

       As requested, a total of $26,000,000 is provided for 
     Automation Modernization.

                 Transportation Security Administration


                           AVIATION SECURITY

       A total of $5,639,095,000 is provided for Aviation 
     Security. In addition to the discretionary appropriation for 
     Aviation Security, a mandatory appropriation totaling 
     $250,000,000 is available through the Aviation Security 
     Capital Fund. Statutory language reflects the collection of 
     $2,065,000,000 from aviation security fees, as authorized.
       The amount provided for this appropriation by PPA is as 
     follows:

 
                                                    ( $000 )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Screening Partnership Program.................................                 $154,572                 $166,666
Screener Personnel, Compensation, and Benefits................                2,952,868                2,923,890
Screener Training and Other...................................                  226,290                  225,442
Checkpoint Support............................................                  103,469                   88,469
EDS Procurement/Installation..................................                   84,075                   83,933
Screening Technology Maintenance..............................                  294,509                  294,509
Aviation Regulation and Other Enforcement.....................                  348,653                  349,821
Airport Management and Support................................                  591,734                  587,657
Federal Flight Deck Officer and Flight Crew Training..........                   20,000                   22,365
Air Cargo.....................................................                  106,920                  106,343
Federal Air Marshals..........................................                  800,214                  790,000
Aviation Security Capital Fund (Mandatory)....................                (250,000)                (250,000)
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Total, Aviation Security..................................               $5,683,304               $5,639,095
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                     Screening Partnership Program

       A total of $166,666,000 is provided for the Screening 
     Partnership Program (SPP), which reflects the estimated 
     funding requirement for current and recently awarded SPP 
     airports. TSA is expected to more proactively utilize the 
     SPP, expeditiously approve the applications of airports 
     seeking to participate in the program that meet legislatively 
     mandated criteria, plan and manage toward a 12-month timeline 
     for awarding applicable contracts for each new airport, and 
     notify the Committees if it expects to obligate less than the 
     appropriated amount.
       TSA is directed to implement generally accepted accounting 
     methodologies for cost and performance comparisons. As 
     detailed in the House report, this includes, but is not 
     limited to, appropriate, comprehensive, and accurate 
     comparisons of Federal employee retirement costs and the 
     administrative overhead associated with Federal screening 
     services.
       As detailed in the Senate report, TSA is directed to adjust 
     its PPA lines and notify the Committees within 10 days to 
     account for any changes in private screening contracts, 
     including new awards under the SPP or the movement from 
     privatized screening into Federal screening. TSA is to 
     provide the Committees semi-annual reports on its execution 
     of the SPP and the processing of applications for 
     participation.

                      Screener Training and Other

       A total of $225,442,000 is provided for Screener Training 
     and Other, including $99,600,000 for Transportation Security 
     Officer Training.

                           Checkpoint Support

       A total of $88,469,000 is provided for Checkpoint Support. 
     The reduction below the request reflects the availability of 
     balances that have remained unobligated for over seven years.

                      Explosives Detection Systems

       A total of $83,933,000 is provided for Explosives Detection 
     Systems (EDS) Procurement and Installation. Including the 
     existing mandatory Aviation Security Capital Fund 
     appropriation of $250,000,000, the total appropriation for 
     fiscal year 2015 for EDS procurement and installation is 
     $333,933,000.
       For airports that are more than 12 months from construction 
     and are able to demonstrate that certain high-speed EDS for 
     checked baggage would be more efficient and result in long 
     term cost savings compared to medium-speed systems, TSA shall 
     consider lifting the current prohibition on the use of TSA 
     funding for design and construction of such systems not yet 
     on TSA's Qualified Products List.

      Investment Plans for Air Cargo, Checkpoint Security, and EDS

       As described in the Senate report and in lieu of language 
     in the House bill, TSA is directed to brief the Committees, 
     not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this 
     Act, on its fiscal year 2015 investment plans for checkpoint 
     security and EDS refurbishment, procurement, and installation 
     on an airport-by-airport basis. The briefing shall address 
     specific technologies intended for purchase, program 
     schedules and major milestones, a schedule for obligation of 
     the funds, recapitalization priorities, the status of 
     operational testing for each passenger screening technology 
     under development, and a table detailing current unobligated 
     balances and anticipated unobligated balances at the close of 
     the fiscal year. The briefing shall also include details on 
     passenger screening pilot programs that are in progress or 
     being considered for implementation in fiscal year 2015. 
     Further, not later than 60 days after the date of enactment 
     of this Act, TSA is directed to brief the Committees on its 
     fiscal year 2015 investment plans for air cargo security. The 
     expenditure plan briefings described under this heading are 
     separate and distinct from the obligation and expenditure 
     guidance noted in Title I of this statement.

               Aviation Regulation and Other Enforcement

       A total of $349,821,000 is provided for Aviation Regulation 
     and Other Enforcement. Within this total, $129,900,000 is 
     provided for the National Explosives Detection Canine Team 
     Program and $70,550,000 is provided for Airport Law 
     Enforcement and Assessments.

                          Federal Air Marshals

       A total of $790,000,000 is provided for the Federal Air 
     Marshals (FAMS). The amount provided under this heading 
     reflects current attrition rates, the consolidation of FAMS 
     into Aviation Security, and the realignment of the remaining 
     FAMS funding into the Surface Transportation Security 
     appropriation.
       The Department is required to deploy Federal Air Marshals 
     on flights determined to present high security risks, and to 
     make nonstop, long distance flights, including inbound 
     international flights, a priority, as per 49 U.S.C. 44917. 
     Therefore, TSA is expected to utilize personnel and 
     deployment patterns to optimize coverage of flights to 
     address known threats, minimize risk, and complement the full 
     range of security resources deployed by the U.S. government. 
     TSA is to brief the Committees on the optimal mix of FAMS 
     personnel and the types and frequency of flights for which 
     coverage should be provided. Other details are included 
     within the classified annex.
       As detailed in the Senate report, FAMS is to brief the 
     Committees, not later than 60 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, on its efforts to implement 
     recommendations made in a recent study of operations and 
     staffing by the Homeland Security Studies and Analysis 
     Institute.


                    SURFACE TRANSPORTATION SECURITY

       A total of $123,749,000 is provided for Surface 
     Transportation Security. Within the amount appropriated, 
     $94,519,000 is for the Surface Inspectors and Visible 
     Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) PPA, including a 
     reduction of $3,000,000 below the request to reduce the 
     number of VIPR teams to 31, compared to the 33 requested in 
     the budget.


                        INTELLIGENCE AND VETTING

       A total of $219,166,000 is provided for Intelligence and 
     Vetting. To facilitate oversight, TSA shall brief the 
     Committees not later than 60 days after the date of enactment 
     of this Act on efforts to modernize vetting and credentialing 
     infrastructure.
       The amount provided for this appropriation by PPA is as 
     follows:

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                                                    ( $000 )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Direct Appropriations:
    Intelligence..............................................                  $51,801                  $51,545
    Secure Flight.............................................                  112,543                   99,569
    Other Vetting Programs....................................                   68,182                   68,052
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Direct Appropriations.......................                  232,526                  219,166
Fee Collections:
    Transportation Worker Identification Credential Fee.......                   34,832                   34,832
    Hazardous Material Fee....................................                   12,000                   12,000
    General Aviation at DCA Fee...............................                      350                      350
    Commercial Aviation and Airport Fee.......................                    6,500                    6,500
    Other Security Threat Assessment Fee......................                       50                       50
    Air Cargo/Certified Cargo Screening Program Fee...........                    7,173                    7,173
    TSA Pre-Check Application Program Fee.....................                   13,700                   13,700
    Alien Flight School Fees..................................                    5,000                    5,000
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Fee Collections.............................                   79,605                   79,605
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Total, Intelligence and Vetting...........................                 $312,131                 $298,771
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                             Secure Flight

       A total of $99,569,000 is provided for Secure Flight. Due 
     to delays in implementing the Large Aircraft and Charter 
     Screening Program, the funding requested is not provided.


                    TRANSPORTATION SECURITY SUPPORT

       A total of $917,226,000 is provided for Transportation 
     Security Support.
       The amount provided for this appropriation by PPA is as 
     follows:

 
                                                    ( $000 )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Headquarters Administration...................................                 $275,891                 $269,100
Information Technology........................................                  451,920                  449,000
Human Capital Services........................................                  204,215                  199,126
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Total, Transportation Security Support....................                 $932,026                 $917,226
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

       The bill withholds $25,000,000 from obligation until TSA 
     submits to the Committees a report providing evidence that 
     behavioral indicators can be successfully used to identify 
     passengers who may pose a threat to aviation security, as 
     well as a report addressing GAO's concerns with TSA's 
     Advanced Imaging Technology program. TSA shall also brief the 
     Committees on the specific actions being taken to address 
     recent allegations of unethical activity involving the 
     purchase and sale of firearms within FAMS.

                              Coast Guard


                           OPERATING EXPENSES

       A total of $7,043,318,000 is provided for Operating 
     Expenses, including $553,000,000 for defense activities, of 
     which $213,000,000 is designated for overseas contingency 
     operations (OCO) and the global war on terrorism (GWOT). 
     Funds provided in support of GWOT and OCO under this heading 
     may be allocated without regard to section 503 in Title V of 
     this Act. Pending the submission of the Capital Investment 
     Plan (CIP) with the President's budget, the bill withholds 
     from obligation $85,000,000 of the appropriation.
       The appropriated amount includes the following increases to 
     the budget request: $50,000,000 to reduce the backlog in 
     critical depot level maintenance; $7,800,000 to maintain one 
     of the two High Endurance Cutters proposed for 
     decommissioning; $15,000,000 to restore operational hours and 
     critical depot maintenance reductions; $4,200,000 for 
     counterdrug surge operations; $2,200,000 to restore a Bravo 
     Zero response capability; $7,500,000 to restore unjustified 
     cuts to military special pays; $1,000,000 to restore cuts to 
     vessel boarding teams; $2,500,000 to restore cuts to 
     information technology programs; and $2,740,000 to address an 
     anticipated shortfall in small boat purchases. The 
     appropriated amount also includes the request for the 2015 
     military pay increase.
       The amount provided for this appropriation by PPA is as 
     follows:

 
                                                    ( $000 )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Military Pay and Allowances...................................               $3,433,594               $3,449,782
Civilian Pay and Benefits.....................................                  787,372                  781,517
Training and Recruiting.......................................                  197,800                  198,279
Operating Funds and Unit Level Maintenance....................                  991,919                1,008,682
Centrally Managed Accounts....................................                  335,262                  335,556
Intermediate and Depot Level Maintenance......................                1,003,786                1,056,502
Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism.......                    - - -                  213,000
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Total, Operating Expenses.................................               $6,749,733               $7,043,318
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Overseas Contingency Operations and Global War on Terrorism Funding

       The bill includes funding for OCO/GWOT within the Coast 
     Guard Operating Expenses appropriation instead of within 
     funding provided to the Department of Defense. The Coast 
     Guard is directed to brief the Committees not later than 30 
     days after the date of enactment of this Act on any changes 
     expected in the funding requirement for OCO/GWOT activities 
     during fiscal year 2015. Further, the Coast Guard is directed 
     to include details of its current and future support to 
     Central Command in the classified annex of the fiscal year 
     2016 budget request.

                            Coast Guard Yard

       The Coast Guard Yard located at Curtis Bay, Maryland, is 
     recognized as a critical component of the Coast Guard's core 
     logistics capability that directly supports fleet readiness. 
     Sufficient industrial work should be assigned to the Yard to 
     sustain this capability.
       The Coast Guard shall provide a report on drydock 
     facilities at the Coast Guard Yard, as directed in the Senate 
     report.

                      National Housing Assessment

       The Coast Guard shall submit, as part of the fiscal year 
     2016 budget request, the information directed in the Senate 
     report concerning the National Housing Assessment.

                        Mission Needs Statement

       Not later than July 1, 2015, the Commandant shall submit to 
     the Committees a new Mission Needs Statement (MNS), which 
     will be used to inform the out-year CIP. The MNS should 
     assume that the Coast Guard requires the capability to 
     continue to carry out all of its eleven statutory missions.
       Not later than September 30, 2016, the Commandant shall 
     submit to the Committees a revised Concept of Operations 
     (CONOPS), which, in conjunction with the MNS, will be used as 
     a planning document for the Coast Guard's re-capitalization 
     needs. The CONOPS shall determine the most cost effective 
     method of executing mission needs by addressing gaps 
     identified in the MNS, addressing the funding requirements 
     proposed in the five-year CIP, and providing options for 
     reasonable combinations of alternative capabilities of air 
     and surface assets, to include icebreaking resources and 
     fleet mix.

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                          Small Boat Purchases

       The Department shall submit a report on fiscal year 2015 
     small boat purchases, as detailed in the Senate report. For 
     fiscal year 2016, such information shall be included within 
     the congressional budget justification. Further, the Coast 
     Guard shall work with industry partners to outline annual 
     small boat requirements and to better understand the cost 
     implications of indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity 
     purchase agreements.

                      Command and Control Aircraft

       As directed in the Senate report, the Coast Guard shall 
     notify the Committees of any changes in the type or number of 
     its command and control aircraft. Further, not later than 90 
     days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Coast Guard 
     shall brief the Committees on the path forward for future 
     leases or purchases of such aircraft.


                ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND RESTORATION

       A total of $13,197,000 is provided for Environmental 
     Compliance and Restoration.


                            RESERVE TRAINING

       A total of $114,572,000 is provided for Reserve Training.


              ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS

       A total of $1,225,223,000 is provided for Acquisition, 
     Construction, and Improvements. The amount provided for this 
     appropriation by PPA is as follows:

 
                                                    ( $000 )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Vessels:
    Survey and Design--Vessel and Boats.......................                     $500                     $500
    In-Service Vessel Sustainment.............................                   24,500                   49,000
    National Security Cutter..................................                  638,000                  632,847
    Offshore Patrol Cutter....................................                   20,000                   20,000
    Fast Response Cutter......................................                  110,000                  110,000
    Cutter Boats..............................................                    4,000                    4,000
    Polar Ice Breaking Vessel.................................                    6,000                    - - -
    Polar Icebreaker Preservation.............................                    - - -                    8,000
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
  Subtotal, Vessels...........................................                  803,000                  824,347
Aircraft:
    H-60 Airframe Replacement.................................                    - - -                   12,000
    HC-144 Conversion/Sustainment.............................                   15,000                   15,000
    HC-27J Conversion/Sustainment.............................                   15,000                   20,000
    HC-130J Acquisition/Conversion/Sustainment................                    8,000                  103,000
    HH-65 Conversion/Sustainment..............................                   30,000                   30,000
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
  Subtotal, Aircraft..........................................                   68,000                  180,000
Other Acquisition Programs:
    Program Oversight and Management..........................                   18,000                   18,000
    C4ISR.....................................................                   36,300                   36,300
    CG--Logistics Information Management System...............                    3,000                    5,000
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
  Subtotal, Other Acquisition Programs........................                   57,300                   59,300
Shore Facilities and Aids to Navigation:
    Major Construction: Housing; ATON; Survey & Design........                   19,580                   19,580
    Major Acquisition Systems Infrastructure..................                   16,000                   16,000
    Minor Shore...............................................                    5,000                    5,000
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
  Subtotal, Shore Facilities and Aids to Navigation...........                   40,580                   40,580
Military Housing..............................................                    - - -                    6,000
Direct Personnel Costs........................................                  115,313                  114,996
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
Total, Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements............               $1,084,193               $1,225,223
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                        National Security Cutter

       A total of $632,847,000 is provided for the National 
     Security Cutter (NSC) program. The total reflects a reduction 
     of $7,500,000 based upon previous production cost savings and 
     updated execution data from the Coast Guard and $3,953,000 
     for close out and other costs requested well ahead of need. 
     Within the NSC total, $6,300,000 is included for small 
     unmanned aircraft systems.

                     Polar Icebreaker Preservation

       As detailed in the Senate report, $8,000,000 is included 
     for the preservation of the Polar Sea in anticipation of a 
     potential, future year reactivation.

                       Polar Ice Breaking Vessel

       No additional funding is provided for the polar icebreaking 
     program. Current program efforts for fiscal year 2015 are 
     fully funded from prior year appropriations.

                       H-60 Airframe Replacement

       A total of $12,000,000 is provided to allow for the 
     continued work on the remanufacture of H-60 helicopters.

                            HC-130J Aircraft

       An additional $95,000,000 is provided for one fully 
     missionized HC-130J aircraft.

                     HC-27J Conversion/Sustainment

       A total of $20,000,000 is provided for the HC-27J Spartan 
     aircraft program, to include an additional $5,000,000 for 
     aircraft spares.

                            Military Housing

       A total of $6,000,000 is provided for the recapitalization, 
     improvement, and acquisition of housing to support military 
     families. The Coast Guard shall provide to the Committees an 
     expenditure plan for these funds in the shore facilities 
     report required to be submitted not later than 45 days after 
     the date of enactment of this Act.


              RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION

       A total of $17,892,000 is provided for Research, 
     Development, Test, and Evaluation.


                              RETIRED PAY

       A total of $1,450,626,000 is provided for Retired Pay. The 
     Coast Guard's Retired Pay appropriation is a mandatory budget 
     activity.

                      United States Secret Service


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       A total of $1,615,860,000 is provided for Salaries and 
     Expenses. Included in the amount is $21,500,000 to begin 
     preparation and training for presidential candidate nominee 
     protection for the 2016 presidential election, including for 
     protective vehicles and communications technology; and 
     $4,000,000 to establish the protective detail for the next 
     former President.
       The amount provided for this appropriation by PPA is as 
     follows:

 
                                                    ( $000 )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Protection:
    Protection of Persons and Facilities......................                 $874,885                 $892,685
    Protective Intelligence Activities........................                   68,234                   67,536
    National Special Security Event Fund......................                    4,500                    4,500
    Presidential Candidate Nominee Protection.................                   25,500                   25,500
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Protection..................................                  973,119                  990,221
Investigations:
    Domestic Field Operations.................................                  332,395                  338,295
    International Field Office Administration, Operations and                    34,361                   34,195
     Training.................................................
    Support for Missing and Exploited Children................                    - - -                    8,366
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Investigations..............................                  366,756                  380,856
Headquarters, Management and Administration...................                  189,191                  188,380
Rowley Training Center........................................                   55,868                   55,378
Information Integration and Technology Transformation.........                    1,036                    1,025
                                                               -------------------------------------------------

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    Total, Salaries and Expenses..............................               $1,585,970               $1,615,860
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                      White House Complex Security

       Recent incidents at the White House have raised serious 
     concerns about the leadership and management of the Secret 
     Service. In its Security Report on the White House Incursion 
     Incident of September 19, 2014, the Department highlighted 
     critical failures in information sharing and communications, 
     confusion about operational protocols, and gaps in training 
     at the White House Complex. While some of these problems can 
     be attributed to insufficient resources requested by DHS and 
     the Office of Management and Budget, others are systemic and 
     appear to reflect broader cultural challenges within the 
     Secret Service. To begin addressing some of these shortfalls, 
     the bill provides an additional $25,000,000 in the Protection 
     of Persons and Facilities PPA. These resources shall be used 
     in part to support additional tactical canine units and 
     staff, assess and bolster security infrastructure at both the 
     White House Complex and Vice President's Residence, and fund 
     overtime and training. The Secret Service is directed to 
     brief the Committees not later than 60 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act on its plans for using these additional 
     resources to provide the necessary security enhancements and 
     training.

                  Professionalism within the Workforce

       As described in the House report, recurring allegations of 
     misconduct within the Secret Service are deeply 
     disappointing. The Secret Service is expected to take all 
     steps necessary to ensure that it has in place the proper 
     training and protocols to prevent similar incidents and to 
     hold violators accountable for their actions. Accordingly, 
     the bill withholds $10,000,000 from obligation for 
     Headquarters, Management and Administration until the Secret 
     Service submits to the Committees, not later than 90 days 
     after the date of enactment of this Act, a report providing 
     evidence that the Secret Service has sufficiently reviewed 
     its professional standards of conduct; issued new guidance 
     for the procedures and conduct of employees when engaged in 
     overseas operations and protective missions; and instituted a 
     professional standards policy consistent with the agency's 
     critical missions and unique position of public trust.

    Electronic Crimes Investigations and State and Local Cybercrime 
                                Training

       As detailed in the House and Senate reports, a total of 
     $108,437,000 is provided for the Secret Service's various 
     cyber activities, including electronic crimes investigations 
     and state and local cybercrime training. Within this total, 
     not less than $12,000,000 is provided for the robust support 
     and expansion of basic and advanced training for state and 
     local law enforcement personnel, judges, and prosecutors to 
     combat cybercrime.

                  National Special Security Event Fund

       A total of $4,500,000 is provided to defray costs 
     associated with the Secret Service's statutory responsibility 
     to direct the planning and coordination of National Special 
     Security Events (NSSEs). As described in the House report, 
     the Secret Service shall provide periodic updates on NSSEs 
     planned for fiscal year 2015 prior to and following each 
     event.

                         Technology Activities

       The bill provides a total of $1,025,000 for Information 
     Integration and Technology Transformation activities of the 
     Secret Service. The Secret Service is directed to brief the 
     Committees on all Secret Service information technology 
     activities to include the information previously required in 
     the multi-year investment plan.

                      Strategic Human Capital Plan

       Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this 
     Act, the Secret Service is directed to provide a strategic 
     human capital plan for fiscal years 2015 through 2019 that 
     aligns mission requirements with resource projections and 
     delineates between protective and investigative missions. The 
     plan shall address how projected resources can provide the 
     appropriate combination of special agents and Uniformed 
     Division officers to avoid routine leave restrictions, enable 
     a regular schedule of mission-critical training, and provide 
     appropriate levels of support staffing.


     ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENTS, AND RELATED EXPENSES

       A total of $49,935,000 is provided for Acquisition, 
     Construction, Improvements, and Related Expenses, including 
     $5,380,000 for facilities and $44,555,000 for investments in 
     Information Integration and Technology Transformation 
     programs.

      TITLE III--PROTECTION, PREPAREDNESS, RESPONSE, AND RECOVERY

              National Protection and Programs Directorate


                     management and administration

       A total of $61,651,000 is provided for Management and 
     Administration (M&A) of the National Protection and Programs 
     Directorate (NPPD). The request to transfer 18 FTE from OBIM 
     to the NPPD M&A PPA is denied; therefore, the $2,914,000 for 
     these FTE is included in the total provided for OBIM. The 
     bill includes a new provision requiring NPPD to submit its 
     fiscal year 2016 budget request by office and PPA. All 
     information shall be submitted in the congressional budget 
     justification and clearly demonstrate funding levels and 
     projected program outcomes. NPPD is directed to brief the 
     Committees quarterly on a plan for the obligation and 
     expenditure of funds for all accounts, as specified under 
     Title I of this statement.


           infrastructure protection and information security

       A total of $1,188,679,000 is provided for Infrastructure 
     Protection and Information Security (IPIS), of which 
     $225,000,000 is available until September 30, 2016.
       A provision is included permitting the use of funds for 
     Next Generation Networks activities if there are delays due 
     to contract actions in other programs. The provision is 
     provided to promote the best use of funds only if there are 
     unavoidable delays in other critical activities.
       The amount provided for this appropriation by PPA is as 
     follows:

 
                                                    ( $000 )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Infrastructure Protection:
    Infrastructure Analysis and Planning......................                  $63,999                  $64,494
    Sector Management and Governance..........................                   63,136                   64,961
    Regional Field Operations.................................                   57,034                   56,550
    Infrastructure Security Compliance........................                   86,976                   85,027
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Infrastructure Protection...................                  271,145                  271,032
Cybersecurity and Communications:
    Cybersecurity:
        Cybersecurity Coordination............................                    4,330                    4,311
        US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT)                           98,794                   98,573
         Operations...........................................
        Federal Network Security..............................                  171,500                  171,000
        Network Security Deployment...........................                  377,690                  377,000
        Global Cybersecurity Management.......................                   17,613                   25,873
        Critical Infrastructure Cyber Protection and Awareness                   70,963                   70,919
        Business Operations...................................                    5,554                    5,524
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
            Subtotal, Cybersecurity...........................                  746,444                  753,200
    Communications:
        Office of Emergency Communications....................                   36,480                   37,335
        Priority Telecommunications Services..................                   53,381                   53,324
        Next Generation Networks..............................                   69,571                   53,293
        Programs to Study and Enhance Telecommunications......                   10,106                   10,092
        Critical Infrastructure Protection Programs...........                   10,439                   10,403
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
            Subtotal, Communications..........................                  179,977                  164,447
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Subtotal, Cybersecurity and Communications................                  926,421                  917,647
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
Total, Infrastructure Protection and Information Security.....               $1,197,566               $1,188,679
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                       Infrastructure Protection

       It is critical that NPPD maintain a robust infrastructure 
     information and analysis capability to guide decision-making 
     that helps prevent and respond to incidents. Within the 
     amount provided for Infrastructure Analysis and Planning, 
     $17,150,000 is for the National Infrastructure Simulation and 
     Analysis Center; $15,500,000 is for Vulnerability 
     Assessments; and $9,000,000 is for the Office of Bombing 
     Prevention.
       NPPD shall expand its efforts to strengthen the ability of 
     government and private sector critical infrastructure 
     partners to assess risks, coordinate programs and processes, 
     and execute risk management programs and activities. 
     Accordingly, a total of $64,961,000 is provided for Sector 
     Management and Governance, which includes $2,000,000 above 
     the request to define agency needs, identify requirements for 
     community-level critical infrastructure protection and 
     resilience, and rapidly develop, test, and transition to use 
     technologies that address needs and requirements.
       As described in the Senate report, NPPD shall provide semi-
     annual reports on the implementation of the Chemical Facility 
     Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program that include the 
     numbers of facilities covered; inspectors; completed 
     inspections; inspections completed by region; pending 
     inspections; days inspections are overdue; enforcement 
     actions resulting from inspections; and enforcement actions 
     overdue for resolution.
       As described in the House and Senate reports, NPPD's 
     excessive use of administratively uncontrollable overtime 
     (AUO) was inappropriate. As a result, the President's budget 
     request for Infrastructure Security Compliance has been 
     reduced. NPPD shall brief the Committees on implementation of 
     its new overtime policies and on overtime year-to-date and 
     anticipated expenditures, not later than May 1, 2015.

                      Federal System Cybersecurity

       The process of instituting base capabilities to secure the 
     .gov domain remains onerous, prohibiting efficient 
     implementation and the opportunity to make protections more 
     broadly available to critical infrastructure operators and 
     state and local governments. NPPD is directed to move as 
     expeditiously as possible, working with the Tier I internet 
     service providers, other partners, and Federal departments 
     and agencies, to deploy intrusion prevention security systems 
     and continuous diagnostics capabilities. As part of NPPD's 
     quarterly briefings on obligations and expenditures, NPPD 
     shall keep the Committees apprised of the deployment 
     schedules associated with its major cybersecurity programs.
       DHS has made progress through its collaborative efforts 
     with Federal agencies in overcoming obstacles and 
     implementing cybersecurity tools while safeguarding sensitive 
     information. A recent agreement with the Census Bureau to use 
     EINSTEIN services and the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness 
     Team should be used as a template for other Federal agencies 
     that have been reticent to take advantage of EINSTEIN 
     services because of concerns about protecting sensitive data.

                        Cybersecurity Workforce

       A total of $25,873,000 is provided for Global Cybersecurity 
     Management, of which no less than $15,810,000 is for 
     cybersecurity education. As described in the Senate report, 
     NPPD is directed to conduct a review of the feasibility and 
     benefit (including cost savings and security) of using 
     cybersecurity personnel and facilities outside of the 
     National Capital Region to serve Federal and national needs. 
     Findings of this review shall be reported to Congress not 
     later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act.


                       federal protective service

       A total of $1,342,606,000 is provided for the Federal 
     Protective Service (FPS), as requested. This amount is fully 
     offset by collections of security fees. Pursuant to the 
     Senate report, the Secretary is directed to certify, not 
     later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act 
     that FPS will collect sufficient revenue and fees to fully 
     fund operations and 1,371 FTE, including no less than 1,007 
     in law enforcement, as requested in the budget. A provision 
     is included requiring that a strategic human capital plan be 
     submitted with the President's fiscal year 2016 budget 
     proposal.


                office of biometric identity management

       A total of $252,056,000 is provided for the Office of 
     Biometric Identity Management (OBIM). The request to transfer 
     18 FTE from OBIM to the NPPD M&A PPA is denied; therefore, 
     the $2,914,000 for these FTE is included in the total 
     provided for OBIM. Not less than $25,382,000 is provided for 
     IDENT system improvements and modernization efforts. OBIM is 
     directed to brief the Committees on a plan for the obligation 
     and expenditure of funds, as specified under Title I of this 
     statement.
       OBIM is directed to continue to brief the Committees semi-
     annually on its workload and service levels, staffing, 
     modernization efforts, and other operations, with the first 
     briefing not later than 90 days after the date of enactment 
     of this Act. These briefings shall include an update on the 
     estimated costs and schedule for replacing the current IDENT 
     system and the schedule for enrolling TSA's special vetted 
     populations and DHS employees and contractors into IDENT.
       OBIM shall also continue semi-annual briefings on 
     interagency coordination with the Departments of Justice, 
     Defense, and State, and progress towards integrating the 
     various biometric systems, including Unique Identity.

                        Office of Health Affairs

       A total of $129,358,000 is provided for the Office of 
     Health Affairs (OHA). Of the total amount, $86,891,000 is for 
     BioWatch; $824,000 is for the Chemical Defense Program; 
     $10,500,000 is for the National Biosurveillance Integration 
     Center (NBIC); $4,995,000 is for Planning and Coordination; 
     and $26,148,000 is for Salaries and Expenses.

                       Biosurveillance Activities

       The bill provides an increase of $2,240,000 to begin 
     replacement of aging BioWatch equipment to maintain current 
     biodetection capabilities. OHA and the Science and Technology 
     Directorate are directed to brief the Committees not later 
     than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act on the 
     path forward for BioWatch and biosurveillance programs.

              National Biosurveillance Integration Center

       The bill provides $10,500,000 for NBIC, $2,500,000 above 
     the amount requested, including a total of $3,400,000 to 
     operationalize successful pilots funded in prior years. Prior 
     to obligating this operationalization funding, OHA shall 
     brief the Committees on its evaluation of the NBIC pilot 
     projects and its proposal to operationalize successful 
     pilots, including the resulting capability enhancements and 
     funding requirements for those activities in fiscal year 2015 
     and future years.

                  Federal Emergency Management Agency


                         salaries and expenses

       A total of $934,396,000 is provided for Salaries and 
     Expenses. Within the total, not less than: $2,000,000 is for 
     the Emergency Management Assistance Compact; $4,199,515 is 
     for the National Hurricane Program; $8,500,000 is for the 
     National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program; $9,100,000 is 
     for the National Dam Safety Program; and $4,000,000 is for 
     automation modernization. Of the total, $30,000,000 is for 
     capital improvements to the Mount Weather Emergency 
     Operations Center. A provision is included providing funding 
     related to modernization of automated systems.
       It is noted that the reprogramming notification 
     requirements delineated in section 503 of this Act apply to 
     the movement of funds between and among programs, projects, 
     or activities (PPAs). In that regard, while the funding table 
     included at the end of this statement provides guidance on 
     reprogramming control levels, section 503 notification 
     requirements also apply to funding amounts referenced in 
     budget justification materials, Committee reports, and ``new 
     starts,'' defined as any significant new activity that has 
     not been explicitly justified to the Congress in budget 
     justification material and appropriated by the Congress 
     during the normal budget process. When determining which 
     movements of funds are subject to section 503, FEMA is 
     reminded to follow GAO's definition of ``program, project, or 
     activity'' as detailed in the GAO's A Glossary of Terms Used 
     in the Federal Budget Process.
       The amount provided for this appropriation by PPA is as 
     follows:

 
                                                    ( $000 )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Administrative and Regional Offices...........................                 $245,218                 $244,183
    Office of National Capital Region Coordination............                    - - -                  (3,400)
Preparedness and Protection...................................                  185,000                  180,797
Response......................................................                  167,376                  175,986
    Urban Search and Rescue Response System...................                 (27,513)                 (35,180)
Recovery......................................................                   56,030                   55,789
Mitigation....................................................                   25,782                   28,876
Mission Support...............................................                  141,809                  145,316
Centrally Managed Accounts....................................                  103,449                  103,449
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Total, Salaries and Expenses..............................                 $924,664                 $934,396
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                          Budget Justification

       As directed in Title I of this explanatory statement, FEMA 
     shall include funding and FTE information in the budget 
     justifications for fiscal year 2016, to include the prior 
     year actual funding level, an estimate for current year 
     funding, and the request for the budget year for all PPAs, 
     programs, and sub-programs.

                          Training Assessment

       As directed in the Senate report under the State and Local 
     Programs appropriation, FEMA shall brief the Committees on 
     the results of the review of its training programs when 
     completed. The briefing shall include the requirements for 
     attaining the personnel qualification levels dictated in the 
     recent 2014-2018 FEMA Strategic Plan.

                        Automation Modernization

       A total of $4,000,000 is provided for automation 
     modernization. In lieu of the direction by the Senate, the 
     Administrator of FEMA and the DHS CIO shall brief the 
     Committees on the expenditure plan for automation 
     modernization to include the prior year actual funding level, 
     an estimate for current year funding, and the request for the 
     budget year.

             Roles and Missions Review of Regional Offices

       The FEMA Administrator is encouraged to conduct an 
     assessment that shall provide advice and recommendations 
     regarding the appropriate roles and missions of the FEMA 
     Regional Offices for the purpose of maximizing the Agency's 
     ability to carry out authorized activities and determining 
     budgetary requirements. The assessment will seek to identify 
     and distinguish, in consideration of each region's unique 
     requirements due to geography, demographics, and other 
     factors, which FEMA Regional Office roles, missions, and 
     functions might be added or enhanced; maintained at current 
     levels of performance; reduced, eliminated, or moved; or 
     better performed by private organizations (by contract or 
     otherwise), public authorities, local or state governments, 
     or other Federal agencies. The assessment will be completed 
     not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this 
     Act.

                          DHS Unity of Effort

       Associated with the Department's Unity of Effort 
     initiative, $1,138,000 is realigned from the DHS Office of 
     Policy to the Mitigation PPA for the Resilience STAR program; 
     $900,000 is realigned from the DHS Office of Operations 
     Coordination and Planning (OPS) to the Response PPA for the 
     Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) project; and $500,000 is 
     realigned from OPS to the Response PPA for the Interagency 
     Modeling and Atmospheric Center.


                        state and local programs

       A total of $1,500,000,000 is provided for State and Local 
     Programs, to be distributed by PPA as follows:

 
                                                    ( $000 )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
State Homeland Security Grant Program.........................                    - - -                 $467,000
    Operation Stonegarden.....................................                    - - -                 (55,000)
Urban Area Security Initiative................................                    - - -                  600,000
    Nonprofit Security Grants.................................                    - - -                 (13,000)
Public Transportation Security Assistance and Railroad                            - - -                  100,000
 Security Assistance..........................................
    Amtrak Security...........................................                    - - -                 (10,000)
    Over-the-Road Bus Security................................                    - - -                  (3,000)
Port Security Grants..........................................                    - - -                  100,000
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Discretionary Grants........................                    - - -                1,267,000
Education, Training, and Exercises:
    Emergency Management Institute............................                    - - -                   20,569
    Center for Domestic Preparedness..........................                    - - -                   64,991
    National Domestic Preparedness Consortium.................                    - - -                   98,000
    National Exercise Program.................................                    - - -                   19,919
    Continuing Training.......................................                    - - -                   29,521
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Education, Training, and Exercises..........                    - - -                  233,000
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
National Preparedness Grant Program...........................               $1,043,200                    - - -
First Responder Assistance Program:
    Emergency Management Performance Grants...................                  350,000                - - - \1\
    Fire Grants...............................................                  335,000                - - - \1\
    Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER)                   335,000                - - - \1\
     Act Grants...............................................
    Training Partnership Grants...............................                   60,000                    - - -
    Education, Training, and Exercises........................                  102,269                    - - -
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, First Responder Assistance Program..........                1,182,269                    - - -
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Total, State and Local Programs...........................               $2,225,469              $1,500,000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Funds appropriated in separate accounts.

       Provisions are included specifying timeframes for grant 
     awards, limiting grantee administrative costs to five percent 
     of the total amount of each grant, permitting the 
     construction of communication towers under certain 
     conditions, requiring reports from grantees as necessary, and 
     permitting the use of certain funds for security buffer zones 
     at FEMA facilities.

                   Education, Training, and Exercises

       A total of $233,000,000 is provided for Education, 
     Training, and Exercises. Within the total, $29,521,000 is for 
     Continuing Training, including $3,500,000 for rural first 
     responder training and not less than $2,000,000 for hazardous 
     materials training.

                     Urban Area Security Initiative

       Consistent with the 9/11 Act, FEMA shall conduct risk 
     assessments for the 100 most populous metropolitan areas 
     prior to making Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) grant 
     awards. Because most of the cumulative national terrorism 
     risk to urban areas is focused on a relatively small number 
     of cities, it is expected that UASI funding will be limited 
     to urban areas representing up to 85 percent of such risk and 
     that resources will continue to be allocated in proportion to 
     risk.


                     firefighter assistance grants

       A total of $680,000,000 is provided for Firefighter 
     Assistance Grants, including $340,000,000 in grants for 
     firefighter equipment, protective gear, emergency vehicles, 
     training and other resources, and $340,000,000 for 
     firefighter staffing grants.


                emergency management performance grants

       A total of $350,000,000 is provided for Emergency 
     Management Performance Grants.


              radiological emergency preparedness program

       Statutory language is included providing for the receipt 
     and expenditure of fees collected, as authorized by Public 
     Law 105-276.


                   united states fire administration

       A total of $44,000,000 is provided for the United States 
     Fire Administration.


                          disaster relief fund

                     (including transfer of funds)

       A total of $7,033,464,494 is provided for the Disaster 
     Relief Fund (DRF), of which $6,437,792,622 is designated as 
     being for disaster relief for major disasters pursuant to 
     section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
     Deficit Control Act of 1985. A provision is included 
     transferring $24,000,000 to the OIG for audits and 
     investigations related to all disasters.
       A general provision is included in Title V of this Act 
     rescinding $375,000,000 from amounts provided for non-major 
     disaster response in prior years due to the significant 
     balances carried over from fiscal year 2014 and amounts 
     recovered from previous disasters during project closeouts. 
     The remaining balances, combined with the amount appropriated 
     in this bill, fully fund all known requirements, to include 
     recovery from Hurricane Sandy, the Colorado wildfires, the 
     Oklahoma tornadoes, and other previous disasters, as well as 
     an estimate of relief efforts for future disasters.
       In lieu of direction in the House report directing FEMA to 
     provide a report on the Public Assistance Alternative 
     Procedures Program to certain committees, FEMA shall provide 
     the report to Congress.
       As directed in Title I of this statement, FEMA shall 
     include in the budget justification for fiscal year 2016 a 
     detailed justification for all categories funded with base 
     discretionary funding, including a detailed obligation plan 
     for the Disaster Readiness Support (DRS) program. 
     Additionally, FEMA shall provide briefings on the obligation 
     and expenditure of DRS funding not later than 30 days after 
     the date of enactment of this Act and semi-annually 
     thereafter.
       FEMA is directed to continue rigorous efforts to prevent 
     improper payments to citizens seeking disaster assistance. 
     Reclaiming funds from individuals during a financially 
     fragile time is destructive and can leave families in ruin. 
     If an improper payment is made, FEMA shall implement the 
     appeals process efficiently and pay diligent attention to 
     overpayments made due to FEMA's error. If the improper 
     payment cannot be forgiven,

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     FEMA shall work with individuals based on ability to make the 
     repayment.
       FEMA shall make every effort to assist Federal agencies, 
     including HUD, to find acceptable proof of work for 
     completion of home elevations.


             flood hazard mapping and risk analysis program

       A total of $100,000,000 is provided for Flood Hazard 
     Mapping and Risk Analysis.


                     national flood insurance fund

       A total of $179,294,000 is provided for the National Flood 
     Insurance Fund, for which administrative costs shall not 
     exceed four percent.
       FEMA is encouraged to promote more extensive use of the 
     Community Rating System (CRS) nationwide. FEMA is directed to 
     dedicate resources for robust implementation of CRS and to 
     continue working with institutions with expertise in 
     floodplain management and disaster risk management that can 
     provide direct technical assistance to communities to develop 
     applications.


                  national predisaster mitigation fund

       A total of $25,000,000 is provided for the National 
     Predisaster Mitigation Fund, to remain available until 
     expended.


                       emergency food and shelter

       A total of $120,000,000 is provided for the Emergency Food 
     and Shelter (EFS) program, of which administrative costs 
     shall not exceed 3.5 percent. A provision, as proposed in the 
     budget request, is not included for the FEMA Administrator to 
     transfer the funding and administrative responsibility for 
     EFS to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). 
     While the proposal to transfer EFS to HUD has merits, 
     outreach with appropriate stakeholders is required to ensure 
     a successful transition. Should such a transfer be proposed 
     in future budget requests, it is expected that FEMA and HUD 
     will have a comprehensive outreach strategy as well as a full 
     transition plan as part of such proposal.

        TITLE IV--RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING, AND SERVICES

           United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

                                E-Verify

       A total of $124,435,000 is provided in discretionary 
     appropriations for E-Verify.

                Federal Law Enforcement Training Center


                         salaries and expenses

       A total of $230,497,000 is provided for Salaries and 
     Expenses. The amount available for official reception and 
     representation expenses, $7,180, reflects recent historic 
     expenditures for this purpose. FLETC is directed to brief the 
     Committees on a plan for the obligation and expenditure of 
     funds, as specified under Title I of this statement.


     acquisitions, construction, improvements, and related expenses

       A total of $27,841,000 is provided for Acquisition, 
     Construction, Improvements, and Related Expenses. FLETC shall 
     submit, not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
     of this Act, an updated five-year comprehensive master plan 
     for its four training centers.

                         Science and Technology


                     management and administration

       A total of $129,993,000 is provided for Management and 
     Administration. This amount includes funds realigned from the 
     DHS Office of Operations Coordination and Planning for the 
     S&T NextGen Air Transportation System, as part of the 
     Secretary's Unity of Effort initiative.


           research, development, acquisition, and operations

       A total of $973,915,000 is provided for Research, 
     Development, Acquisition, and Operations. In lieu of 
     quarterly reports, the Science and Technology Directorate 
     (S&T) is directed to provide semi-annual briefings to the 
     Committees on the review and prioritization of each S&T-
     funded R&D project, including documentation on how each 
     newly-funded project meets S&T's prioritization and funding 
     criteria.
       The amount provided for this appropriation by PPA is as 
     follows:

 
                                                    ( $000 )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Research, Development, and Innovation.........................                 $433,788                 $457,499
Laboratory Facilities.........................................                  435,180                  434,989
Acquisition and Operations Support............................                   41,703                   41,703
University Programs...........................................                   31,000                   39,724
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Total, Research, Development, Acquisition, and Operations.                 $941,671                 $973,915
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                 Research, Development, and Innovation

       A total of $457,499,000 is provided for Research, 
     Development, and Innovation. S&T is directed to brief the 
     Committees not later than 30 days after the date of enactment 
     of this Act on the proposed allocation of funds by project 
     and thrust area, and to provide quarterly status briefings on 
     the plan and any changes from the original allocation.

                         Cybersecurity Research

       The House and Senate reports both emphasized cybersecurity 
     research as a strong priority. In addition, the Department is 
     strongly encouraged to expand its work with cyber research 
     infrastructure test beds and accompanying cyber education.

                             Apex Projects

       As directed in both the House and Senate reports, S&T shall 
     brief the Committees not later than 30 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act on the Apex funding allocation by 
     project and on progress made to field improved technologies.

                National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility

       The bill provides $434,989,000 for Laboratory Facilities, 
     of which $300,000,000 is for construction of the National 
     Bio- and Agro-defense Facility.

                       Component Liaison Program

       Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this 
     Act, S&T shall submit a plan to the Committees on the 
     proposed structure of a liaison program that establishes a 
     permanent mechanism for interaction between S&T and the 
     components.

                          University Programs

       A total of $39,724,000 is provided for University Programs, 
     which will allow S&T to fund all existing centers at an 
     appropriate level and the new center expected to be awarded 
     in fiscal year 2015. S&T shall brief the Committees not later 
     than 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act on the 
     status of competitively selecting the new center.

                   Domestic Nuclear Detection Office


                     MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

       A total of $37,339,000 is provided for Management and 
     Administration. As directed in the Senate report, in lieu of 
     an annual report, DNDO shall brief the Committees annually on 
     the Department's strategic investment plan, including DNDO's 
     ability to surge capabilities with Federal, state, and local 
     level assets to respond to suspected radiological threats.


                 RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND OPERATIONS

       A total of $197,900,000 is provided for Research, 
     Development, and Operations. Included in this amount is an 
     increase of $1,000,000 above the request to restore cuts to 
     the National Nuclear Forensics Expertise Development Program.
       The amount provided for this appropriation by PPA is as 
     follows:

 
                                                    ( $000 )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Systems Engineering and Architecture..........................                  $17,924                  $17,000
Systems Development...........................................                   22,000                   21,400
Transformational Research and Development.....................                   69,500                   69,500
Assessments...................................................                   38,079                   38,000
Operations Support............................................                   31,565                   31,000
National Technical Nuclear Forensics Center...................                   20,000                   21,000
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Total, Research, Development, and Operations..............                 $199,068                 $197,900
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                          Systems Acquisition

       The bill provides a total of $72,603,000 for Systems 
     Acquisition.
       The amount provided for this appropriation by PPA is as 
     follows:

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                                                    ( $000 )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                    Budget Estimate             Final Bill
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Radiation Portal Monitor Program..............................                   $5,000                   $5,000
Securing the Cities...........................................                   12,000                   19,000
Human Portable Radiation Detection Systems....................                   50,861                   48,603
                                                               -------------------------------------------------
    Total, Systems Acquisition................................                  $67,861                  $72,603
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                      TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Section 501. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued that no part of any appropriation shall remain 
     available for obligation beyond the current year unless 
     expressly provided.
       Section 502. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued that unexpended balances of prior appropriations 
     may be merged with new appropriation accounts and used for 
     the same purpose, subject to reprogramming guidelines.
       Section 503. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued that limits authority to reprogram 
     appropriations within an account and provides authority to 
     transfer up to five percent between appropriations accounts 
     with 15-day advance notification to the Committees. 
     Congressional control levels for reprogramming purposes 
     include, but are not limited to, the amounts identified in 
     the detailed funding table located at the end of this 
     statement. These reprogramming guidelines shall be complied 
     with by all agencies funded by this Act.
       The Department shall submit reprogramming requests on a 
     timely basis and provide complete explanations of the 
     reallocations proposed, including detailed justifications of 
     the increases and offsets, and any specific impact the 
     proposed changes will have on the budget request for the 
     following fiscal year and future-year appropriations 
     requirements. Each request submitted to the Committees should 
     include a detailed table showing the proposed revisions at 
     the account, program, project, and activity level to the 
     funding and staffing (full-time equivalent position) levels 
     for the current fiscal year and to the levels requested in 
     the President's budget for the following fiscal year.
       The Department shall manage its programs and activities 
     within the levels appropriated. The Department should only 
     submit reprogramming or transfer requests in the case of an 
     unforeseeable emergency or situation that could not have been 
     predicted when formulating the budget request for the current 
     fiscal year. When the Department submits a reprogramming or 
     transfer request to the Committees and does not receive 
     identical responses from the House and Senate, it is the 
     responsibility of the Department to reconcile the House and 
     Senate differences before proceeding and, if reconciliation 
     is not possible, to consider the reprogramming or transfer 
     request not approved.
       Unless an initial notification has been provided, the 
     Department is not to submit a reprogramming or transfer of 
     funds notification after June 30 except in extraordinary 
     circumstances that imminently threaten the safety of human 
     life or the protection of property. If a reprogramming or 
     transfer is needed after June 30, the submittal should 
     contain sufficient documentation as to why it meets this 
     statutory exception.
       Section 504. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued that prohibits funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available to the Department to make payment to the 
     Working Capital Fund (WCF), except for activities and amounts 
     allowed in the President's fiscal year 2015 request. Funds 
     provided to the WCF are available until expended. The 
     Department can only charge components for direct usage of the 
     WCF and these funds may be used only for the purposes 
     consistent with the contributing component. Any funds paid in 
     advance or reimbursed must reflect the full cost of each 
     service. The Department shall submit a notification for the 
     addition or removal of any activity to the fund and shall 
     submit quarterly execution reports with activity level 
     detail.
       Section 505. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued that not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated 
     balances remaining at the end of fiscal year 2015 from 
     appropriations made for salaries and expenses shall remain 
     available through fiscal year 2016 subject to section 503 
     reprogramming guidelines.
       Section 506. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued that funds for intelligence activities are 
     deemed to be specifically authorized during fiscal year 2015 
     until the enactment of an Act authorizing intelligence 
     activities for fiscal year 2015.
       Section 507. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued and modified requiring notification of the 
     Committees three days before grant allocations, grant awards, 
     contract awards, other transactional agreements, letters of 
     intent, a task or delivery order on a multiple contract award 
     totaling $1,000,000 or more, a task or delivery order greater 
     than $10,000,000 from multi-year funds, or sole-source grant 
     awards, are announced by the Department, including contracts 
     covered by the Federal Acquisition Regulation. The Department 
     is required to brief the Committees five full business days 
     prior to announcing the intention to make a grant under State 
     and Local Programs. Notification shall include a description 
     of the project or projects to be funded, including city, 
     county, and state.
       Section 508. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued that no agency shall purchase, construct, or 
     lease additional facilities for Federal law enforcement 
     training without advance approval of the Committees.
       Section 509. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued that none of the funds may be used for any 
     construction, repair, alteration, or acquisition project for 
     which a prospectus, if required under chapter 33 of title 40, 
     United States Code, has not been approved.
       Section 510. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued that consolidates by reference prior year 
     statutory bill language into one provision. These provisions 
     relate to contracting officer's technical representative 
     training; sensitive security information; and the use of 
     funds in conformance with section 303 of the Energy Policy 
     Act of 1992.
       Section 511. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued that none of the funds may be used in 
     contravention of the Buy American Act.
       Section 512. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued regarding the oath of allegiance required by 
     section 337 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
       Section 513. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued and modified requiring the Chief Financial 
     Officer to submit monthly budget execution and staffing 
     reports within 30 days after the close of each month.
       Section 514. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued and modified directing that any funds 
     appropriated or transferred to TSA's Aviation Security, 
     Administration, and Transportation Security Support 
     appropriations in fiscal years 2004 and 2005 that are 
     recovered or deobligated shall be available only for 
     procurement and installation of explosives detection systems, 
     air cargo, baggage, and checkpoint screening systems, subject 
     to notification. Semi-annual reports must be submitted 
     identifying any funds that are recovered or deobligated.
       Section 515. A provision proposed by the Senate is included 
     regarding competitive sourcing for USCIS. The House proposed 
     no similar provision.
       Section 516. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued for fiscal year 2015 requiring that any funds 
     appropriated to the Coast Guard's 110-123 foot patrol boat 
     conversion that are recovered, collected, or otherwise 
     received as a result of negotiation, mediation, or 
     litigation, shall be available until expended for the Fast 
     Response Cutter program.
       Section 517. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued classifying the functions of the instructor 
     staff at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center as 
     inherently governmental for purposes of the Federal 
     Activities Inventory Reform Act.
       Section 518. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued regarding grants or contracts awarded by any 
     means other than full and open competition. The Inspector 
     General is required to review Departmental contracts awarded 
     noncompetitively and report on the results to the Committees.
       Section 519. A provision proposed by the House is included 
     that prohibits funding pertaining to the Principal Federal 
     Official during a Stafford Act declared disaster or 
     emergency, with certain exceptions. The Senate proposed no 
     similar provision.
       Section 520. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued that precludes DHS from using funds in this Act 
     to carry out reorganization authority. This prohibition is 
     not intended to prevent the Department from carrying out 
     routine or small reallocations of personnel or functions 
     within components, subject to section 503 of this Act. This 
     language prevents large scale reorganization of the 
     Department, which should be acted on legislatively by the 
     relevant congressional committees of jurisdiction.
       Section 521. A provision proposed by the Senate is included 
     prohibiting the Secretary from reducing operations within the 
     Coast Guard's Civil Engineering Program except as 
     specifically authorized by a statute enacted after the date 
     of enactment of this Act. The House proposed no similar 
     provision.
       Section 522. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued that prohibits funding to grant an immigration 
     benefit to any individual unless the results of the 
     background checks required in statute, to be completed prior 
     to the grant of the benefit, have been received by DHS.
       Section 523. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued extending other transactional authority for DHS 
     through fiscal year 2015.
       Section 524. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
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     Secretary to link all contracts that provide award fees to 
     successful acquisition outcomes.
       Section 525. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued regarding waivers of the Jones Act.
       Section 526. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued related to prescription drugs.
       Section 527. A provision proposed by the Senate is included 
     prohibiting funds from being used to reduce the Coast Guard's 
     Operations Systems Center mission or its government-employed 
     or contract staff. The House proposed no similar provision.
       Section 528. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued requiring the Secretary, in conjunction with the 
     Secretary of the Treasury, to notify the Committees of any 
     proposed transfers from the Department of Treasury Forfeiture 
     Fund to any agency within DHS. No funds may be obligated 
     until the Committees approve the proposed transfers.
       Section 529. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued prohibiting funds for planning, testing, 
     piloting, or developing a national identification card.
       Section 530. A provision proposed by the Senate is included 
     prohibiting funds to be used to conduct or implement the 
     results of a competition under Office of Management and 
     Budget Circular A-76 with respect to the Coast Guard National 
     Vessel Documentation Center. The House proposed no similar 
     provision.
       Section 531. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued that requires a report to be posted on the FEMA 
     website summarizing damage assessment information used to 
     determine whether to declare a major disaster.
       Section 532. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued directing that any official required by this Act 
     to report or to certify to the Committees on Appropriations 
     may not delegate any such authority unless expressly 
     authorized to do so in this Act.
       Section 533. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued prohibiting the use of funds for the transfer or 
     release of individuals detained at United States Naval 
     Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
       Section 534. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued prohibiting funds in this Act to be used for 
     first-class travel.
       Section 535. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued prohibiting funds to be used to employ illegal 
     workers as described in Section 274A(h)(3) of the Immigration 
     and Nationality Act.
       Section 536. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued and made permanent relating to the proper 
     disposal of personal information collected through the 
     Registered Traveler program.
       Section 537. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued prohibiting funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act to pay for award or incentive fees for 
     contractors with below satisfactory performance or 
     performance that fails to meet the basic requirements of the 
     contract.
       Section 538. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued that requires any new processes developed to 
     screen aviation passengers and crews for transportation or 
     national security to consider privacy and civil liberties, 
     consistent with applicable laws, regulations, and guidance.
       Section 539. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued that permits the allocation of funds for an 
     immigrant integration grants program. The grants shall be 
     used to provide services to individuals who have been 
     lawfully admitted into the U.S. for permanent residence.
       Section 540. A provision proposed by the Senate is included 
     providing a total of $48,600,000 for consolidation of the new 
     DHS headquarters at St. Elizabeths and related mission 
     support activities. The House proposed no similar provision.
       Section 541. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued prohibiting funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act for DHS to enter into a Federal 
     contract unless the contract meets requirements of the 
     Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 or 
     chapter 137 of title 10 U.S.C., and the Federal Acquisition 
     Regulation, unless the contract is otherwise authorized by 
     statute without regard to this section.
       Section 542. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is included and modified providing $34,072,000 for financial 
     systems modernization activities to be allocated by the 
     Secretary and allowing the Secretary to transfer financial 
     systems modernization funds made available by this Act 
     between appropriations after notifying the Committees 15 days 
     in advance. Funding is available for two years.
       Section 543. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued providing flexibility to the Department in 
     responding to an immigration emergency, subject to 
     notification.
       Section 544. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued permitting the Department to sell ICE-owned 
     detention facilities and use the proceeds from any sale for 
     improvement to other facilities provided that any such sale 
     will not result in the maintenance of fewer than 34,000 
     detention beds.
       Section 545. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued and modified pertaining to multi-year investment 
     and management plans for certain activities within CBP and 
     ICE.
       Section 546. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued and modified stating that the Secretary shall 
     ensure enforcement of all immigration laws.
       Section 547. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is included and modified regarding Federal Network Security.
       Section 548. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued regarding restrictions on electronic access to 
     pornography, except for law enforcement purposes.
       Section 549. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued regarding the transfer of firearms by Federal 
     law enforcement personnel.
       Section 550. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued prohibiting any funds from this or any other Act 
     to be used for creation of the National Preparedness Grant 
     Program or any successor grant programs unless explicitly 
     authorized by Congress.
       Section 551. A provision proposed by the House is included 
     prohibiting funds for the position of Public Advocate or a 
     successor position within ICE. The Senate proposed no similar 
     provision.
       Section 552. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is included and modified amending Division F of Public Law 
     113-76, and Division D of Public Law 113-6, regarding 
     reimbursable public-private partnerships and donation 
     authority related to CBP port of entry operations.
       Section 553. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued regarding funding restrictions and reporting 
     requirements related to conferences occurring outside of the 
     United States.
       Section 554. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued that prohibits funds made available by this Act 
     to reimburse any Federal department or agency for its 
     participation in a NSSE.
       Section 555. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is included and modified requiring certification to Congress 
     for new air preclearance operations.
       Section 556. A provision proposed by the House is included 
     prohibiting any funds from this or any other Act to be used 
     to require airport operators to provide airport-financed 
     staffing to monitor exit points from the sterile area of any 
     airport at which TSA provided such monitoring as of December 
     1, 2013. The Senate proposed no similar provision.
       Section 557. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued providing the Secretary discretion to waive 
     certain provisions of law related to requirements for 
     Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) 
     grants.
       Section 558. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued that prohibits the collection of new land border 
     fees or the study of the imposition of such border fees.
       Section 559. A provision proposed by the Senate is included 
     pertaining to the temporary reemployment of administrative 
     law judges for arbitration dispute resolution. The House 
     proposed no similar provision.
       Section 560. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued that clarifies that fees collected pursuant to 
     the Colombia Free Trade Agreement are available until 
     expended.
       Section 561. A provision proposed by the Senate is included 
     related to user fee proposals that have not been enacted into 
     law prior to submission of the budget. The House proposed no 
     similar provision.
       Section 562. A provision proposed by the House is included 
     requiring the Secretary to report on the Department's 
     requirements for and usage of weapons. The Senate proposed no 
     similar provision.
       Section 563. A provision proposed by the House is included 
     which prohibits funds from being used for environmental 
     remediation of LORAN support in a specified location. The 
     Senate proposed no similar provision.
       Section 564. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is included directing the inclusion of budget justification 
     for any structural pay reform that affects more than 100 FTE 
     positions or costs more than $5,000,000.
       Section 565. A provision proposed by the Senate is included 
     and modified directing the Department to post on a public 
     website reports required by the Committees on Appropriations 
     unless public posting compromises homeland or national 
     security or contains proprietary information. The House 
     proposed no similar provision.
       Section 566. A provision proposed by the Senate is included 
     repealing section 605 of Public Law 110-161 related to land 
     border port of entry technology demonstration projects. The 
     House proposed no similar provision.
       Section 567. A provision proposed by the Senate is included 
     regarding a transfer to the Disaster Relief Fund from the 
     Disaster Assistance Direct Loan Program. The transfer has no 
     impact on ongoing loan determinations. The House proposed no 
     similar provision.
       Section 568. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is included deeming a Transportation Security Officer, who 
     died as the direct result of an injury sustained in the line 
     of duty on November 13, 2013, as having been a public safety 
     officer for the purposes of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
     Safe Streets Act of 1968.
       Section 569. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is included requiring OMB and DHS to include in budget 
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       Section 570. A provision proposed by the Senate is included 
     regarding the Fire Management Assistance Grant Program. The 
     House proposed no similar provision.
       Section 571. A new provision is included regarding 
     reprogramming and transfer authority for CBP and ICE Salaries 
     and Expenses accounts related to the care and transportation 
     of unaccompanied alien children.
       Section 572. A new provision is included making costs of 
     providing humanitarian relief to unaccompanied alien children 
     and to alien adults and their minor children an eligible use 
     for certain Homeland Security grants to Southwest border 
     recipients for fiscal years 2013 and 2014. State and local 
     costs to include the costs of personnel, overtime and travel 
     related to enhancing border security are already eligible 
     expenses under the major Homeland Security grant programs; 
     however, costs associated with the immediate care and 
     transportation of UAC and families that were incurred by 
     state and local jurisdictions would otherwise not be 
     eligible.
       The influx of UAC and families that came across the 
     Southwest border overwhelmed Federal resources and put a 
     burden on state and local jurisdictions, particularly small 
     counties along the border. This created not only a 
     humanitarian crisis but also a greater vulnerability to 
     terrorism and other security risks to our Nation.

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       Section 573. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is included and modified rescinding unobligated balances from 
     specified programs.
       Section 574. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is included and modified rescinding specified funds from the 
     Treasury Forfeiture Fund.
       Section 575. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is included and modified rescinding unobligated balances from 
     legacy programs.
       Section 576. A new provision is included rescinding 
     unobligated lapsed balances from DHS programs.
       Section 577. A provision proposed by the House and Senate 
     is continued and modified rescinding unobligated balances 
     from FEMA DRF.
       Section 578. A new provision is included that allows that 
     the explanatory statement regarding this Act, printed in the 
     House of Representatives section of the Congressional Record, 
     shall have the same effect with respect to the allocation of 
     funds and implementation of this Act as if it were a joint 
     explanatory statement of a committee of conference.

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  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Chair, before I yield to the next speaker, I want to 
make it very clear that the bill that was negotiated by the Democrats 
and Republicans, House and Senate, would pass immediately today, and 
then we could look forward to a debate on comprehensive immigration 
reform.
  I am very pleased to yield 9 minutes to the distinguished gentleman 
from North Carolina (Mr. Price), the ranking member of the Homeland 
Security Appropriations Subcommittee, who worked so hard with the 
Republicans in producing this outstanding bill. Unfortunately, the bill 
is very different with the additions that were added just in the last 
week.
  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. I thank my colleague for yielding.
  Mr. Chair, the bill before us today, funding the Department of 
Homeland Security for fiscal year 2015, has been ready for final 
passage for almost 2 months. I want to thank the gentleman from Texas, 
Chairman Carter, our Senate counterparts, as well as our dedicated 
committee staff for working cooperatively through November and December 
to negotiate a comprehensive and balanced measure.
  Chairman Carter has summarized the underlying bill very, very well. 
It provides necessary funding increases for the Secret Service to hire 
new agents for the 2016 Presidential campaign, as well as to make the 
necessary security adjustments at the White House.
  It provides increased funding for the completion of the Coast Guard's 
eighth National Security Cutter, $813 million more in disaster relief 
funding at FEMA, and funding for NPPD's efforts to continue enhancing 
our national cybersecurity capability.
  But it pains me to say, Mr. Chair, that all of these positive efforts 
stand in stark contrast to the poison pill amendments that the Rules 
Committee has made in order for this bill, amendments designed to 
inject partisan anti-immigration politics into a bipartisan effort to 
keep our Nation safe.
  Unfortunately, there is nothing new about adding highly inflammatory 
riders to appropriations bills in a way that wrecks months of 
cooperative work and makes bipartisan support impossible. We have seen 
this in middle-of-the-night Homeland Security anti-immigration 
amendments for 2 years running. But today we are seeing the most 
egregious and irresponsible abuse of the appropriations process yet.
  Republican leaders have already delayed a full-year funding bill for 
Homeland Security by nearly a month longer than for the rest of the 
government despite the fact that this bill was fully negotiated and 
ready for consideration well before the omnibus bill was assembled at 
the end of the last Congress. Now, more than a quarter of the way 
through the fiscal year, the Republican leadership is continuing to 
play dangerous and irresponsible games with the funding of this 
Department, the Department that was created to protect the Nation from 
terrorist attacks.
  Members, of course, are aware of the horrendous murder of 17 
individuals last week in France by terrorists. This is an alarming 
example of the kind of brutal and calculated attack that the Department 
of Homeland Security and its law enforcement partners are working hard 
to prevent here in the United States. It is the kind of attack that 
keeps Secretary Johnson up at night and should keep us up at night as 
well. This alone should make it unthinkable to dawdle on a full-year 
funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security.
  Last Sunday, 3 million people participated in unity marches in 
France. But we are sending a very different message by delaying 
homeland security funding.
  Six days removed from a heinous terrorist act, we are dawdling. We 
are holding back. We are refusing to immediately send to the President 
a bipartisan bill designed to keep the Nation safe. Instead, we are 
tacking on politically charged items that will rightfully ensure a 
veto.
  Now, Mr. Chair, some Members seem to be under the mistaken impression 
that departments and agencies might make out just fine under a 
continuing resolution. Perhaps some Members even think that it would be 
okay for the Department's funding to expire for some amount of time 
beginning in late February so that they could underscore the political 
point they want to make. That is a patently false assumption.
  In a few weeks, the fiscal year 2016 budget will be submitted by the 
President, and DHS still doesn't know how much money it will be 
spending in 2015. How can we expect the Department to effectively 
budget if it has no idea of what the baseline will be for its programs 
and activities? How can we expect an agency to effectively function 
when the availability of funding for critical new endeavors is 
undetermined for a quarter of the fiscal year or more? How can we, as a 
Congress, even perform effective oversight when we force ourselves to 
simultaneously finish 2015 funding as we consider the 2016 request?

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  Ironically, the two agencies that stand to lose the most from this 
flawed Republican strategy are the very agencies they purport to 
champion, agencies responsible for immigration enforcement: Customs and 
Border Protection, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
  Under the House bill, these two agencies combined would receive 
nearly $1 billion more than the current spending level, which a CR 
would reflect. The bill we are not passing would provide that 
additional funding. Republicans, however, appear more interested in 
scoring political points than in actually making progress on the 
border.
  Now, the apparent intent of the House majority in holding back full-
year funding for DHS is to help them reverse the President's executive 
actions on immigration policy; but how is that going to really play 
out?
  Without 60 votes in the Senate, the bill will go nowhere. Even if the 
Senate were to pass the bill with the poison pill riders intact, the 
President would certainly veto it with absolutely no chance the House 
or Senate could override that veto.
  What is left of the majority's strategy? Would the Republican 
majorities in the House and Senate really be willing to let funding for 
the Department of Homeland Security lapse when the short-term 
continuing resolution expires? The vast majority of DHS employees are 
considered essential, so they would still need to show up for work.
  Will the House majority really be willing to let frontline agents and 
officers at CBP and ICE work without pay? Would the House majority be 
willing to let the Coast Guard military personnel continue to risk 
their lives at sea without compensation?
  Imagine the outrage--imagine--if a Democratic Congress ever held 
funding for the Department of Homeland Security hostage during the 
George W. Bush administration; yet that is precisely what House 
Republicans are doing with these poison pill amendments made in order 
under the rule.
  Believe me, these pills really are poison. They cater to the 
Republican Conference's most extreme elements; one of them even targets 
the DREAM Act students, reversing the President's widely-acclaimed and 
-accepted decision to focus instead on the deportation of dangerous 
criminals.
  A full-year DHS funding bill was negotiated in good faith on a 
bicameral, bipartisan basis, and it addresses the most pressing needs 
of the Department and works to protect the country from harm.
  If Republicans want to make mean-spirited and destructive changes in 
immigration policy, there is a legislative process for doing that.
  In the meantime, we should be passing a clean, full-year funding bill 
for the Department of Homeland Security, just as we should have done in 
December. I urge defeat of the anti-immigration amendments and adoption 
of the underlying appropriations bill, and I yield back the balance of 
my time.
  Mr. CARTER of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman 
from Virginia (Mr. Goodlatte), the honorable chairman of the Judiciary 
Committee.
  Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Chairman, I first want to begin by thanking the 
chairman of the Subcommittee on Homeland Security of the Committee on 
Appropriations and the chairman of the full Appropriations Committee, 
the gentlemen from Texas and Kentucky, for their excellent work on this 
legislation.
  It is important that we pass it, and it is important that we use the 
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the purse in this process to stop the President's unconstitutional 
actions.
  President Obama has embarked on some of the biggest executive power 
grabs in American history by unilaterally rewriting our Nation's 
immigration laws. These actions ignore the will of the American people 
who voted in November to change the way Washington operates, and these 
actions flout the United States Constitution.
  They must be ended because these policies threaten the separation of 
powers between Congress and the executive branch and violate President 
Obama's obligation to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.
  Congress must fight to stop these unconstitutional actions from being 
implemented, and today, the House of Representatives is doing just 
that. We will consider amendments to this bill that will stop President 
Obama's executive overreach in its tracks.
  Two of the amendments will completely defund President Obama's 
executive power grabs. One offered by Representatives Robert Aderholt, 
Mick Mulvaney, and Lou Barletta will defund the President's new 
deferred action program for over 4 million unlawful alien parents. It 
will also defund the other executive actions he announced on November 
20 and DHS' so-called prosecutorial discretion memos that have gutted 
immigration enforcement within the United States.
  Importantly, in addition to barring the use of appropriated funds to 
carry out these policies, the amendment will bar President Obama from 
using immigration user fees, the filing fees to accomplish his 
executive fiat, and it will prevent him and subsequent Presidents from 
carrying out similar policies in the future by whatever means, whether 
it be by memo, executive order, or regulation.
  The other defunding amendment, offered by Representative Marsha 
Blackburn, completely defunds DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood 
Arrivals program, that has granted deferred action and work 
authorization to hundreds of thousands of unlawful aliens.
  The third amendment will be offered by Representatives DeSantis and 
Roby. It will ensure that sex offenders and domestic violence 
perpetrators are top priorities for removal by U.S. Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement, something that is not the case in this current 
administration under the President's memos.
  The fourth amendment will be offered by Representative Schock. It 
expresses the sense of Congress that the Obama administration should 
stop putting the interests of unlawful aliens ahead of legal 
immigrants.
  Under the President's DACA program, legal immigrants playing by the 
rules and seeking to come to the United States the right way have paid 
the price; they have faced longer wait times even though they have paid 
the fees to have their applications processed and seeing those fees 
diverted to pay for people who entered the country unlawfully.

  The fifth amendment will be offered by Representatives Salmon and 
Thompson. It expresses the sense of Congress that U.S. workers should 
not be harmed by the granting of deferred action and work authorization 
to unlawful aliens.
  In many cases, businesses now have a $3,000 incentive to hire an 
alien granted DACA benefits over a U.S. citizen or legal immigrant 
worker, since DACA recipients are not eligible for ObamaCare. So, in 
other words, an employer has an incentive, either not having to provide 
health insurance and not having to pay the fine, so a minimum of $3,000 
if they hire somebody who is not lawfully present in the United States 
until the President's executive memos take effect. That should be 
stopped.
  If President Obama's unilateral immigration amendments are not 
stopped, future Presidents will continue to expand the power of the 
executive branch and encroach upon individual liberty.
  The time is now for Congress to take a stand against these abusive 
actions. I urge my colleagues to support this bill and these important 
amendments and yield back the balance of my time.
  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the distinguished 
gentleman from California (Mr. Becerra), chairman of the House 
Democratic Caucus.
  Mr. BECERRA. Mr. Chairman, I thank the ranking member for yielding.
  To govern means to get things done. That is pretty simple, and quite 
honestly, that is about all the American people ask us to do on a daily 
basis: get things done.
  Instead of bringing a clean Homeland Security funding bill to the 
floor of this House, our colleagues on the Republican side have decided 
to put our Nation's security at risk and cater to some of the most 
radical views in their party.
  It is stunning that only a week after the tragic terrorist attacks in 
Paris, we are standing here on the floor of the House of 
Representatives talking about attempts to make it more difficult for 
the Department of Homeland Security in the United States of America to 
defend our Nation.
  A good bill--and we have heard this, Republicans and Democrats alike 
say that the underlying bill to fund the Department of Homeland 
Security is a good one; it is just all the poison pill amendments that 
have been forced into this bill.
  So a good bill to fund our government's Homeland Security and all of 
its obligations will come before us and become a victim of what has 
become known as shutdown partisan politics.
  What is at stake? Border protection, customs enforcement, 
transportation security, Coast Guard protection, Secret Service 
protection, emergency management in the event of an attack or a natural 
or manmade disaster--all put in jeopardy to play partisan politics.
  If the American people are going to believe that Congress is anything 
more than a graveyard for good ideas, then we need to get to work and 
not let a tiny minority of radical voices block progress. It is time 
for us to say to Americans: We get it; we heard you.
  It is time to protect the homeland. It is time for us to act 
bipartisanly, and it is time for us to act as leaders for all 
Americans, not a political party.
  We must pass a clean funding bill for the Department of Homeland 
Security without delay, and then, yes, we can get to debate immigration 
and immigration reform and pass a comprehensive immigration reform 
bill, but don't put the security of our people and our homeland at risk 
simply to game the system.
  Let's pass a clean Homeland Security bill. Let us defeat all these 
amendments and get to work the way the American people expect us to.
  Mr. CARTER of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman 
from Texas, Mr. Jeb Hensarling, the honorable chairman of the Committee 
on Financial Services.
  Mr. HENSARLING. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding, and 
I thank him for his leadership on this critical piece of legislation.
  Mr. Chairman, every President in the history of our Republic, from 
George Washington to Barack Obama, has raised their right hand and 
said:

       I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the 
     office of the President of the United States, and will to the 
     best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the 
     Constitution of the United States.

  Clause 4, section 8 of article I of the Constitution says the 
Congress--the Congress--``shall have power to establish an uniform rule 
of naturalization.'' When we as a body read the Constitution on the 
House floor last week, I had the honor of reading this very section for 
all to hear.
  Section 3, article II of the Constitution says the President ``shall 
take care that the laws be faithfully executed,'' but never in the 
history of our Republic has a President so blatantly ignored his oath. 
We know our President has a pen; we know he has a phone. We just wonder 
when will he acquire a copy of the Constitution and read it.
  His executive action on immigration is an unconstitutional power 
grab. It tramples on the authority that the Constitution gives 
Congress--the people's elected Representatives--over immigration. It 
ignores the separation of powers. We cannot let it stand.
  Coequal branches of government, separation of powers, the rule of 
law--these must be preserved. In this bill, as amended, we do this by 
exercising the House's constitutional power of the purse. This DHS 
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  The debate is much bigger than immigration. It is much bigger than 
amnesty. It is about our Constitution. It is about the principle of 
separation of powers. It is the bedrock of our freedom and prosperity 
as Americans.
  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield 4 minutes to the distinguished 
gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the minority whip of the House.
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Chair, I thank the gentlelady for yielding. I want to 
thank the chairman of the subcommittee for the work that he has done on 
this bill. I want to thank the ranking member of the Committee on 
Appropriations and Mr. Price for working on this bill.
  This bill is an appropriation bill. This bill funds the Department 
that is charged with the responsibility of keeping America safe and 
Americans safe. This bill is an appropriation bill. It is against the 
rules of the House of Representatives to put legislative language on an 
appropriation bill.
  Now, frankly, having served there 20, 30 years, I know that that rule 
is not always followed; and you, therefore, need a waiver from the 
Rules Committee in order to effect this end. This is not, therefore, 
regular order.
  We just had another demonstration of the clear and present danger to 
which every citizen in the free world is subject. We saw it in France, 
and 17 people lost their lives.

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  We, of course, lost over 3,000 lives on 9/11. This is an issue on 
which there ought to be no difference among the 435 of us who have the 
privilege and honor of serving in this country and in this Congress.
  Mr. Hensarling raised his right hand to preserve and protect, yes, 
the Constitution and laws thereof, but also to preserve and protect the 
general welfare of all of our people. That is what this bill seeks to 
do.
  Mr. Chairman, there are many compelling reasons why the House must 
pass a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security without delay. 
I have spoken to some of them. We saw one of those reasons all too 
clearly last week, as I have said. Our Homeland Security agencies are 
hard at work every day to prevent incidents like those from occurring 
here in the United States, and how extraordinarily successful they have 
been since 9/11.
  Again, Chairman Carter and Ranking Member Lowey, I want to 
congratulate you for coming together and agreeing on a bill, agreeing 
on funding levels, and agreeing on the objects of expenditures to keep 
Americans and America safe. But with only a continuing resolution to 
fund it, as has happened in December, the Department does not have the 
full flexibility necessary to respond to every threat to the best of 
its ability. This leaves us vulnerable at a time when we cannot afford 
to be vulnerable. That is why it is so unfortunate that House 
Republicans have chosen to play political games.
  If this is, in fact, unconstitutional, the courts are set forth, in 
article III, to resolve this issue. If you feel so strongly that you 
are right, that is where relief should be sought. But let us not hold 
America's national security and the safety of our people hostage to 
that political difference. In doing so, you have managed to snatch 
partisanship from the jaws of consensus. We have agreement. The 
underlying bill before us will have the support of over 400 Members.
  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Conaway). The time of the gentleman has 
expired.
  Mrs. LOWEY. I yield the gentleman an additional 1 minute.
  Mr. HOYER. Over 400 Members would support the underlying bill. 
Wouldn't it be wonderful to show to the American public that we come 
together not in a partisan way, but as Americans to make sure they are 
as safe and secure as we can make them? But, no, we have denigrated 
this debate to a political debate about a difference between the 
President and the Congress. Now, that is a significant debate to have, 
but not on this bill, not where we have consensus, not where the 
American security is at risk if we fail.
  Two of the amendments are solely designed to undermine the executive 
actions President Obama took to address our broken immigration system. 
We think they are appropriate; you don't. That is fine. That is a 
political difference. Do not defeat consensus because we have 
differences on an unrelated issue.
  You will say it is related because this is, after all, the agency 
that deals with immigration and border security. I get that.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has again expired.
  Mrs. LOWEY. I yield the gentleman an additional 1 minute.
  Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentlewoman.
  Mr. Chairman, we will vote against these amendments. But the sad 
truth is you know, all of you, that if those amendments are put on this 
bill, the President of the United States will not sign it, and you will 
therefore have to take it him to court. And I see my friend back 
there--who is my friend--saying, yes, that is great, he won't sign it, 
and we will blame him for undermining Homeland Security.
  In other words, you are going to hold hostage the security, and if he 
doesn't do what you say, security be damned. That is not the way we 
ought to be running America, particularly on this issue. Americans 
expect better of us. More importantly, and as importantly, we ought to 
expect better of ourselves.
  The Appropriations Committee has agreed. The Senate and the House 
have agreed. There is consensus here. Americans are so frustrated by 
all of us grabbing defeat, obstruction, and disagreement from the jaws 
of consensus.
  Vote against these amendments so that all of us can vote to pass this 
important, critical bill.
  Mr. CARTER. Mr. Chairman, at this time, I am very pleased to yield 2 
minutes to the gentleman from Illinois, the Honorable Peter Roskam, my 
good friend and colleague.
  Mr. ROSKAM. I thank the chairman for yielding.
  Mr. Chairman, I look at this from an entirely different perspective. 
I look at this as the House of Representatives asserting its will, 
speaking out, and saying, no, we are not going to be silent in the 
movement of the President of the United States. If we had done nothing, 
Mr. Chairman, then the subsequent argument in weeks to come would have 
been, well, you did nothing. You were silent. You waived your right to 
assert yourself. You have the power of the purse, and you did nothing.
  Well, clearly, we are not doing nothing. Clearly, we are taking it 
up. And now here it is. We are coming together and we are saying that 
we don't believe the President has this authority. We are asserting 
that, and this bill will be debated.
  But at the underlying level there is something absolutely incredibly 
significant and very bright that is happening, regardless of what side 
of the aisle you are on, because do you know what we are talking about? 
We are talking about defending a country that we all hold dear.
  There was a story I heard from an exchange student, Mr. Chairman, who 
came to visit the United States. She was asked about her time here--
this was a young college student--and they said: What made the biggest 
impression upon you during your time in the United States? She said 
this: The number of people who came up to me and said, ``What do you 
hope to do for a living? What do you want to do?'' And it was totally 
different for this girl, because the culture that she was coming from, 
that wasn't her experience, but she came to the United States and there 
was a brightness to it, an opportunity to it, and a freshness to it. 
She found it so exciting and so dynamic. That is what we are fighting 
about. That is what we are fighting for. We are fighting for a nation, 
to defend a great nation, and to celebrate a great nation. That is 
worth taking up.
  So, look, there are very big differences in this House in the 
direction to move. There are very deep differences in this House about 
how we need to deal with the immigration problem.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. CARTER. I yield the gentleman an additional minute.
  Mr. ROSKAM. Mr. Chairman, we all need to realize the brightness of 
this moment.
  So I respect my colleague and his differences. I respect the other 
side and their differences. I think we need to go back to Thomas 
Jefferson, who said this, Mr. Chairman. Jefferson wrote a letter in 
1790 to a guy named Charles Clay. He said:


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       The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we 
     must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time 
     and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It 
     takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their 
     own good.

  Mr. Chairman, this is a game of inches. We need to prevail, we need 
to move forward, and we need to come together.
  Mrs. LOWEY. I am pleased to yield another 30 seconds to the 
distinguished minority whip.
  Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentlewoman.
  Mr. Chairman, I want to say to my friend, as I observed, I think 
there is a legitimate question here. No one wants to see you silenced. 
Everyone thinks you have the right. You are a party, and you 
individually and collectively have the right to bring up this issue. 
What we urge you not to do is put at risk the passing of a Homeland 
Security bill which gives funding for a year's period so there will be 
stability and the ability to manage the national security of our 
country while, at the same time, on a parallel basis, raising 
legitimate questions that you want to take. So no one denies or wants 
to preclude you from the opportunity to do so.
  I thank the gentlelady for yielding.
  The Acting CHAIR. All Members are reminded to address their remarks 
to the Chair and not to individual Members.
  Mr. CARTER. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Chairman, I am very pleased to yield 1 minute to the 
distinguished gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), the House 
minority leader.
  Ms. PELOSI. I thank the gentlelady for yielding.
  Mr. Chairman, I join my colleagues who have commended the 
Appropriations Committee on the fine work they have done under 
difficult circumstances on the Homeland Security bill. It had been our 
hope that their fine work would have been rewarded by its passage in 
December, but the Republican leadership in the House decided that we 
would not pass the bill then to give some certainty to how Homeland 
Security would be funded in this year and instead toss it over until 
the new year.
  We take an oath to protect and defend the American people. Their 
safety is essential to everything else. And Homeland Security is a 
place where we have a very big component for protecting and defending 
the American people. That is why we were so disappointed that, of all 
bills, the Republicans would pull that one bill out of the pack and say 
we are just doing this for a matter of weeks. It came with the promise 
that after the first of the year we would, of course, pass a Homeland 
Security bill. That was December.
  In December, the Republicans said, no, we don't want to have that 
certainty, not just yet. Then, along came January, Paris. ``Je suis 
Charlie,'' around the world it is echoed, everybody coming together, 
heads of state, leaders of countries, whether you were present there or 
not, everybody present in the moment and the time since of support for 
protecting people throughout the world from terrorism.
  It seems like that affected almost everybody, except it didn't 
penetrate the walls of this Chamber because here we are, once again, 
putting off, by other distractions, how we would pass as quickly as 
possible a homeland security bill. And what is interesting to me is 
that some of our colleagues are using immigration as the excuse.
  But, Mr. Chairman, what further is interesting is that now they are 
saying it is not about immigration--which, of course, it has always 
been about passing an immigration bill and we don't even have to have 
this discussion. They are saying it is about the Constitution.
  I have been here since President Reagan was President. I don't 
remember anybody calling up the Constitution when President Reagan used 
his executive action in the family fairness legislation. I don't 
remember anybody bringing up the Constitution when President George 
Herbert Walker Bush further expanded protections for people in our 
country--President Clinton and President George Herbert Walker Bush. So 
this is very interesting to hear it. But I do want to put this in 
perspective, and it will take a little time.
  There is a strong legal and historical precedent to support the 
extension--we are just talking about deferred action here--to a broad 
category of people who have strong equities to our country. The 
Immigration and Nationality Act and the judicial precedent make clear 
that the Executive maintains broad discretion to determine how 
immigration laws are to be enforced. Such discretion extends to 
decisions regarding whether to defer enforcement against entire 
categories of people, whether such categories are defined by 
nationality or some other common characteristic that makes them 
particularly deserving of an act of administrative grace.
  This legal authority has existed since the INA, the Immigration and 
Nationality Act, was first enacted in 1952 and has been exercised in 
various ways and under various names over the past 62 years. Based upon 
the administration's expansive prosecutorial discretion authority, the 
President could extend deferred action to persons who would qualify for 
registered provisional immigration status under S. 744, which passed 
the U.S. Senate on June 27, 2013, by a vote of 68-32.
  The President could similarly establish a separate deferred action 
for persons deemed essential for agriculture in recognition of the fact 
that our country's agriculture industry and millions of jobs that rely 
upon it are largely dependent on the labor of unauthorized workers as 
for the parents of young people who have already received deferred 
action under DACA.
  When Congress first passed the INA, the Immigration and Nationality 
Act, in 1952, it charged the Attorney General with the administration 
and enforcement of immigration laws and authorized the Attorney General 
to ``perform such other acts as he deems necessary for carrying out his 
authority under the provisions of this act.''
  Courts have relied upon this delegation of authority to support the 
principle that the act ``commits enforcement of the INA to the Attorney 
General's discretion.''

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  With the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, DHS, in the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002, which many of us were here for, Congress 
further entrusted the newly created Secretary of Homeland Security with 
the responsibility of ``establishing national immigration enforcement 
policies and priorities.''
  In doing so, Congress acknowledged the inherent authority of 
enforcement agencies to decide whom to investigate, detain, charge, and 
prosecute under the law. The Supreme Court ``has recognized on several 
occasions over many years that an agency's decision not to prosecute or 
enforce, whether through criminal or civil process, is a decision 
generally committed to an agency's absolute discretion.''
  That is the Court's decision. If you want me to read the further 
authorities on that I will, but in the interest of brevity, courts 
consistently have applied this principle in the immigration context, 
and, in particular, to grants of deferred action and extended voluntary 
departure.
  In Arizona v. United States, the Supreme Court relied upon the broad 
discretion exercised by Federal immigration officials, including 
``whether it makes sense to pursue removal of all,'' to strike down 
almost all of Arizona's sweeping anti-immigration law. Because 
Arizona's law could result in ``unnecessary harassment of some 
aliens''--that is their term--for example, a veteran, a college 
student, or someone assisting with a criminal investigation whom 
Federal officials determine should not be removed, the law ``violates 
the principle that the removal process is entrusted at the discretion 
of the Federal Government.''
  The idea that immigration enforcement efforts should be focused on 
high-priority targets has not always been controversial. Guidance 
pertaining to the use of prosecutorial discretion in the immigration 
context has been issued at least as far back as 1976. Under President 
George W. Bush, in recent memory, the Assistant Secretary for 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, reaffirmed prosecutorial 
discretion guidance issued during the Clinton administration and 
reiterated the responsibility of ICE agents and officers to use 
discretion in identifying and responding to meritorious health-related 
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  Indeed, 15 years ago, Democratic and Republican Members of Congress 
joined together on a letter to then-Attorney General Janet Reno urging 
her to issue guidelines that would provide specific instructions to 
agency personnel in order to alleviate some of the hardship caused by 
our immigration laws. Democrats and Republicans signed it, and the 
letter accepted the premise that ``the principle of prosecutorial 
discretion is well-established'' and asked the INS to explain why it 
would pursue removal cases that would result in unjustifiable hardship 
rather than prioritizing enforcement efforts against more serious 
cases.
  Although the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA, program 
announced 2 years ago provides the most recent example of temporary 
relief from removal being offered to a substantial class of persons, it 
is the ``Family Fairness'' program adopted by President Ronald Reagan 
and President George Herbert Walker Bush that proves to be the 
strongest precedent for building upon DACA and offering deferred action 
to a larger class of persons who meet certain criteria.
  This is very interesting, my colleagues, because in 1986, Congress 
passed and President Reagan signed into law the Immigration Reform and 
Control Act of 1986, IRCA. The law provided a path to legal status for 
millions of undocumented immigrants but provided no relief to the 
children and spouses of such persons who were not themselves able to 
meet the requirements for legalization. Indeed, when the Senate 
Judiciary Committee reported the bill to the floor, it wrote:

       It is the intent of the committee that the families of 
     legalized aliens will obtain no special petitioning right by 
     virtue of the legalization. They will be required to ``wait 
     in line'' in the same manner as immediate family members of 
     other new resident aliens.

  But on October 26, 1987--less than 1 year after IRCA was enacted into 
law--President Reagan made the decision to defer enforcement against 
some of the close family members of persons who obtained lawful status 
under IRCA.
  Now this is President Reagan acting. President Obama is acting in the 
absence of congressional action; President Reagan is acting in the 
presence of congressional action and saying, You didn't go far enough.
  Under the Family Fairness program issued by then-INS Commissioner 
Nelson, the Reagan administration offered ``indefinite voluntary 
departure''--along with the opportunity to apply for employment 
authorization--to undocumented children residing with their parents if 
both parents--or in the case of a single-parent household, the parent 
with whom the child resides--had obtained lawful status under the act. 
Spouses of persons who obtained lawful status could also be granted 
indefinite voluntary departure and work authorization by demonstrating 
the existence of certain compelling or humanitarian factors.
  Would you be suing President Reagan for doing that, as some of you 
are friends of the court in the suit against the President, as you are 
using the Constitution as your argument here today?
  In response to continuing concerns that the Family Fairness program 
was too narrowly defined, President George Herbert Walker Bush went 
further 3 years later, expanding the program to apply to all spouses 
and all children of persons who were legalized under IRCA, provided 
they met certain requirements. The memorandum issued by then-INS 
Commissioner Gene McNary clarified that voluntary departure and 
employment authorization would be granted to such persons for a 1-year 
period and would be subject to extensions without limit.
  The Reagan administration--would you be taking the President to 
court, would you be arguing that he acted unconstitutionally on the 
floor of the House? People didn't then.
  The INS developed a new form--``Declaration, Ineligible Family Member 
of Legalized Alien''--precisely for the purpose of allowing 
undocumented persons who did not qualify for legalization under IRCA to 
affirmatively request relief from the threat of deportation and 
authorization to work lawfully. According to reports at the time, INS 
Commissioner McNary contemplated that the program could have affected 
as many as 1.5 million undocumented immigrants. Explaining the 
rationale for expanding the earlier program, McNary stated:

       It is vital that we enforce the law against illegal entry. 
     However, we can enforce the law humanely. To split families 
     encourages further violations of the law as they reunite.

  In the end, only a fraction of the people eligible for relief under 
the Family Fairness program obtained such protection, but that is only 
because the Immigration Act of 1990 was enacted less than 1 year after 
the program was expanded by President Bush. Section 301 of that bill 
contained a family unity program that largely codified the executive 
actions taken by President Reagan and President Bush.
  The parallels between the Reagan-Bush Family Fairness program and 
what is being proposed at the present time are uncanny. There are 
several lessons that can be drawn from this past precedent.
  First, the authority to provide temporary relief from removal to a 
large percentage of the undocumented population has long existed, and 
past Presidents have exercised such authority.
  Second, such authority existed even when the Executive's authority 
would seem to be at its weakest--where Congress specifically declined 
to legislatively provide the relief granted administratively. The 
President is now being asked to take administrative action in the face 
of historic intransigence on the part of House Republicans after the 
Senate overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan comprehensive immigration 
reform bill buoyed by popular support, overwhelmingly supported in a 
bipartisan way in the Senate, but nothing happening in the House.
  By contrast, the Reagan administration adopted the Family Fairness 
program less than 1 year after Congress enacted the last comprehensive 
immigration reform bill that contains specific criteria for 
legalization and knowingly excluded from protection the very people 
affected by the administration action.
  Just as I said before, even when Congress acted, President Reagan 
said we can do better. Nobody argued the Constitution at the time. 
Well, if they did, history does not recall it.
  Third, the scope of the relief now being considered by the 
administration is entirely consistent with the Family Fairness program 
after it was expanded by President George Herbert Walker Bush. 
According to demographic work performed by the Pew Research Center, 
there were an estimated 3.5 million unauthorized immigrants living in 
the U.S. in 1990. By extending the Family Fairness program to cover 1.5 
million unauthorized immigrants at the beginning of that year, 
President Bush used executive authority to protect approximately 42.9 
percent of the undocumented population from removal and offer them work 
authorization.
  I don't remember any uproar in Congress. Many of us were here at that 
time.
  Earlier this year, the Pew Research Center estimated that there were 
11.7 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States as of 
March 2012. If the administration takes steps to protect 5 million 
undocumented immigrants from removal, as a recent article suggested, 
that would extend temporary relief to 42.7 percent--a lower percentage 
than President Bush protected--of the undocumented population now in 
the country.
  Finally, the most important lesson that can be learned from the 
Family Fairness program is that bold executive action can sometimes 
help change the legislative dynamic, helping to break the gridlock and 
pave the way to legislative reform. The only reason the Reagan-Bush 
Family Fairness program did not provide indefinite voluntary departure 
and employment authorization for many years without legislative 
approval--essentially a grant of deferred action--is that Congress did 
act and take steps, following the lead of the Presidents, to largely 
codify the President's program and provide such relief for removal and 
employment authorization itself.
  At the time the Bush administration expanded family fairness, 
legislation to extend similar protections were stuck in Congress, 
having passed the Senate in 1989 but having seen no legislative action 
in the House. Less than 8 months after the administration's action, the 
House passed its version of the bill. A conference committee was

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convened, and IMMACT was quickly enacted into law. The same pattern can 
be observed in many of the cases described in which the administration 
granted extended voluntary departure, deferred enforced departure, or 
deferred action to a broad category of people defined by their 
nationality or some other compelling characteristic. And Congress 
subsequently enacted legislation to permit such people to obtain lawful 
permanent residence.
  I hope that will happen. The President has executive orders. 
Hopefully, Congress will codify that.
  The Reagan-Bush Family Fairness program is just one of the many 
examples of past Presidents deciding to defer removal efforts and offer 
employment authorization to large classes of people.
  In 1960, the Kennedy administration granted extended voluntary 
departure to many Cubans who otherwise would have been subject to 
deportation. Over the next 20 years, the INS granted similar 
protections to nationals of more than a dozen other countries. Such 
grants have sometimes, but not always, resulted in the enactment of 
special legislation permitting extended voluntary departure 
beneficiaries to adjust their status to that of lawful permanent 
residents.
  In 1966, Congress enacted such legislation for Cubans. Again, 
President Kennedy acted. In 1966, Congress enacted such legislation for 
Cubans granted extended voluntary departure.
  Congress did the same in 1977 for Vietnamese, Laotians, and 
Cambodians who were permitted to remain in the country on EVD, extended 
voluntary departure; and again in 1987 for recipients from Poland, 
Afghanistan, Ethiopia, and Uganda.
  I have personal experience on the initiative.
  After Tiananmen Square, there were concerns that Chinese nationals 
residing in the United States, primarily as scholars and students, 
would face repression if forced to return home. Congress passed a bill 
to allow these Chinese nationals to remain, which President George 
Herbert Walker Bush vetoed.
  This is my bill.
  Then, in 1990, it passed the House and passed the Senate, went to his 
desk, and he vetoed it. It had strong bipartisan support. We could 
fight the veto in the House, but in the Senate, at the moment of truth, 
the Senate upheld the veto.
  President Bush promised that he would issue an executive order 
extending deferred enforced departure, or DED, to an estimated 80,000 
Chinese nationals. While the President did not want it to be an act of 
Congress for fear of what an insult it might be to the Chinese 
Government as they were crushing people in the streets in Tiananmen 
Square and arresting people, he did promise to do an executive order, 
which he did.
  Following President Bush's executive order, Congress acted quickly to 
permit Chinese nationals granted protection from removal and employment 
authorization to adjust their status to that of lawful permanent 
residence.
  In 1991, President Bush extended that to approximately 2,000 Persian 
Gulf evacuees of various nationalities who were airlifted from Kuwait 
the previous year during the Persian Gulf War. The persons evacuated 
were chosen because they had children who were U.S. citizens or because 
they provided protection to U.S. citizens during the Iraqi invasion of 
Kuwait.
  In 2000, Congress enacted a private immigration law to permit those 
who had not already been permanent residents by other means to obtain 
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  In 1992, President George Herbert Walker Bush also extended a DED, 
deferred enforced departure, to approximately 200,000 Salvadorans who 
fled civil war and previously had been protected from removal pursuant 
to a grant of temporary protected status, or TPS. President Bill 
Clinton later provided DED to Haitians in 1997, and President George 
Walker Bush extended DED to Liberians in 2007.
  Finally, again, this administration has extended deferred action to 
broad categories of people on two prior occasions. First, in 2009, U.S. 
Citizenship and Immigration Services created a process in which 
surviving spouses of deceased U.S. citizens and the qualifying children 
of such spouses could apply for deferred action.
  The process was created because it was the position of the Department 
of Homeland Security at the time that no immigration relief was 
available under the law to protect surviving members from removal and 
that action was needed to address the humanitarian concerns.
  The DACA program announced by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet 
Napolitano on June 15, 2012, presented the second deferred action 
program created under this administration. As of June 30, 2014, over 
580,000 persons had been granted deferred action under the program.
  The use of Presidential ``parole power'' is one of the oldest and 
most-established provisions of Presidential authority in immigration 
matters. Parole was first used to allow the entry of refugees who would 
otherwise be excluded by the national origins quota system.
  Presidential parole was codified in the original 1952 INA, 
Immigration and Nationality Act, which authorized the use of 
discretionary authority to parole aliens into the United States ``for 
emergent reasons or for reasons deemed strictly in the public 
interest.''
  In 1956, President Dwight David Eisenhower first used his parole 
authority to allow 900 World War II orphans into the country and later 
paroled approximately 30,000 Hungarians. This use of parole power marks 
the first of many mass admissions by future administrations.
  Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon collectively 
allowed approximately 600,000 Cubans to be paroled into the country; 
and Presidents Ford and Carter paroled approximately 300,000 
Indochinese from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
  In response to a concern that the parole power was being used to 
admit large numbers of persons not covered by international refugee 
laws, Congress enacted the Refugee Act in 1980, which amended the INA 
to provide a process for the admission of refugees. The act also 
limited the administration's ability to parole refugees into the 
country, absent compelling reasons in the public interest, but left 
untouched the general parole authority.
  Nevertheless, several Presidents subsequently used the parole 
authority to allow the entry of groups of persons who arguably could 
have been considered ``refugee populations.''
  President George Herbert Walker Bush in 1989 created a program that 
allowed individuals in Vietnam who were ineligible for refugee status 
to enter the country as ``public interest parolees,'' if they were able 
to prepay their travel expenses and provide affidavits of support from 
sponsors in the United States.
  In 1996, President Bill Clinton paroled approximately 7,000 Iraqi 
Kurds to Guam and allowed them to apply for asylum to the United 
States. In 2006, President George W. Bush created a program which 
allowed the United States to parole certain Cuban medical professionals 
who have been conscripted to study or work in a third country under the 
direction of the Government of Cuba.
  In 1996, Congress once more amended the statutory parole authority to 
apply only on a case-by-case basis; nevertheless, as the terms are not 
defined by the statute, they are open to interpretation by the 
administration.
  In fact, the several instances in which parole authority was used by 
past Presidents demonstrate that promoting family unity can serve 
humanitarian goals or provide a significant public benefit.
  The Lautenberg Parole Program, implemented by President George 
Herbert Walker Bush in 1988, granted parole to individuals whose 
refugee claims were denied, but who had family reunification concerns.
  In 2007, President George Herbert Walker Bush established the Cuban 
Family Reunification Parole Program to expedite the reunification of 
Cuban families by paroling into the United States beneficiaries of 
approved family-based immigrant petitions, so they might wait together 
with their family members until a visa became available.
  In 2007, President Bush created a program to authorize the parole of 
certain refugee derivative family members who had aged out and, 
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  Given the administration's broad statutory parole authority, the 
lengthy visa backlogs that exist in most immigrant visa categories, and 
the humanitarian interests and significant public benefits that would 
attach to the unification of families, the President could make parole 
available to the spouses, sons, and daughters of American citizens and 
lawful permanent residents who face a separation of a year or more or, 
in the case of less than a year, when hardship is in addition to the 
separation.
  This would not permit family members to skip the line, but would 
allow them to wait in the United States with their family members.
  Authority for parole in place already is present in the country. The 
legal authority for parole in place was originally recognized in 1998. 
That opinion was endorsed the following year by the Commissioner of the 
INS, and it was reaffirmed in 2007 by the Bush administration DHS 
general counsel under President Bush, as I say.
  According to these legal opinions, INA grants discretion to parole 
``any alien applying for admission to the United States,'' and INA 
expressly defines an applicant for admission to include ``an alien who 
is present in the United States who has not been admitted.'' As a 
result, parole can be granted to persons who are present in the country 
without having previously been admitted to the country.
  The list goes on and on, and I have so much more that I want to tell 
our colleagues, but what I am saying to you is that there is legal 
authority for the President to take action under the law. There is 
Presidential precedent, bipartisan since President Eisenhower, since 
these laws were passed, to do so.
  To all of a sudden say we are having a debate now about the 
Constitution when we are supposed to be passing a law to protect and 
defend that Constitution and, instead, we are taking an exception to 
the interpretation of it--as I said, President Eisenhower, every 
President, President Eisenhower, President Kennedy, President Nixon, 
the list goes on and on--all of the Presidents since President 
Eisenhower and certainly since President Reagan and both President 
Bushes and President Clinton, all acted in this way.
  Many of us were Members of Congress in those Presidencies. If 
somebody wants to come forward and say that he was a voice in the 
darkness, but nothing significant ever emerged to challenge the 
constitutionality of what the Presidents did, so why now, especially 
now, December?

  We are not going to protect and defend by extending this bill with 
certainty for Homeland Security. Paris, the whole world is in unity, 
galvanized by wanting to stop terrorism and to do everything in our 
power to do so, and we in this House are hesitating to do that.
  If we want to take up an immigration bill and argue that the 
President doesn't have the authority to do what he has done, but with 
an intention to act ourselves, that would be the appropriate place to 
have this debate, but to hold up the Homeland Security bill, which 
Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Lowey and the subcommittee chairs--
and we are very proud of David Price on our side on that, and I am sure 
that all the Republicans are proud of their Members on their side, 
because they came up with, under difficult circumstances, a good bill--
let us just pass it, why don't we, and then let's get on with passing 
an immigration bill and debate what authorities the President has, and 
if we don't like them, then debate the merits of what he did and pass 
some of that into law.
  But to say that he doesn't have the authority to do it and this is 
about the Constitution really raises some serious questions.
  Again, we should be talking about how we are creating good-paying 
jobs in our country. That is what people want us to do. Let's just pass 
this bill, get it done, and go on to how we can invest in better 
infrastructure and bigger paychecks for the American people.
  Lifting the economy and the purchasing power of our workers really 
creates an atmosphere where immigration and other humanitarian 
initiatives are better received.
  I took the time tonight because I just was listening to this debate 
and how people were saying that the President was acting outside the 
scope of the Constitution, that he had overreached.
  Then I asked my colleagues: What are you thinking, that you would 
hold up the Homeland Security bill and that you would not question the 
authority of Republican Presidents--or even the Democratic Presidents 
when they had done this--but you are questioning the constitutionality 
of actions taken by President Obama?
  The time is not right for this. The time is right for us to pass an 
immigration bill. The time is right for us to, right now, tonight, pass 
a clean--tomorrow morning, pass a clean--reject these amendments, 
reject these amendments and pass a clean Homeland Security bill, so we 
can get on with that and then have a clear debate about immigration.
  I want to thank the staff of the Judiciary Committee for the 
important work that they have done, Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren and Ranking 
Member John Conyers for the work that they have done educating Members 
about what the history is on this subject--and it is a recent history. 
I thank them for their leadership and their service.
  I ask our colleagues to reject these amendments, disabuse yourself of 
any notion--because it isn't a full-fledged idea--but any notion that 
the President is acting in an unconstitutional way. Let's get on with 
our work.
  When we say, ``Je Suis Charlie,'' we are not just identifying with a 
magazine office in Paris--that would be important enough--but we are 
identifying with the entire effort to protect people from terrorism.
  That is what the Homeland Security Committee was established to do. 
That is what this legislation will fund. Let's remove all doubt that we 
are going to do it as soon as possible.
  I urge a ``no'' vote on the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR (Ms. Foxx). Members are reminded to direct their 
remarks to the Chair.
  Mr. CARTER of Texas. Madam Chair, at this time, I yield 3 minutes to 
the gentleman from Texas, Mr. John Culberson, of the CJS Subcommittee 
of the Appropriations Committee.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Madam Chair, under the logic of the minority we have 
heard tonight, it would be that the President has taken this action 
because of the inaction of Congress in order to fix a broken 
immigration system.
  Under that logic, President George W. Bush would have been within his 
rightful authority, in order to fix a broken economy, to refuse to 
collect the capital gains tax, just to issue an executive order, a 
memorandum by the director of the IRS: Do not collect the capital gains 
tax, the capital gains tax is now effectively zero, no matter what the 
law says, to fix a broken economy.
  I would also point out to my colleagues in the minority that the 
examples that we have heard tonight of previous Presidents taking 
action are all based on the President's very broad authority under the 
war powers, under his authority as Commander in Chief, and also his 
authority to make treaties and receive foreign ambassadors.
  In fact, the Supreme Court, Madam Chair, has said that the President 
is essentially the sole organ of the Federal Government in the field of 
international relations; so the authority of other Presidents in the 
past who have taken these actions, they have done so under their 
authority as Commander in Chief in the area of foreign affairs.
  We in the House tonight, the new Republican majority in the House, 
are listening to the voters. We are responding to the overwhelming 
rejection of President Obama's policies by the American people.
  Two short months ago, when President Obama said his policies were on 
the ballot, America answered and said ``no'' and elected the largest 
Republican majority since the 1920s to stop President Obama from 
dismantling the America we know and love, to stop President Obama from 
ignoring the law and the Constitution.
  We in the House are using our authority to be good stewards of our 
taxpayers' hard-earned tax dollars. Our system of checks and balances 
gives us that authority, our responsibility, to prevent our 
constituents' hard-earned tax dollars from being spent for illegal 
purposes.
  The first amendment we are taking up tonight is one step of many in 
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series of amendments as steps to keep our word that we are listening to 
the American voters.
  The first amendment is one based on a bill that I am proud to 
coauthor with Chairman Aderholt and other Members of the House that 
dismantles and defunds the President's illegal executive amnesty memos.
  We have further taken action in this bill tonight to have the highest 
number of border patrol agents we have ever had before, keeping a 
minimum of 34,000 beds--detention beds--available for the purpose of 
enforcing the law.
  The second critical part of this bill, Madam Chair, is that the 
Republican House is enforcing the law. This is a law enforcement issue 
because we understand in Texas, better than any other part of the 
Nation, you cannot have good schools, safe streets, and a strong 
economy without law enforcement.
  We all know that our economy on the river, on the Rio Grande, is 
fundamental that the law be enforced to keep out the drug runners and 
the smugglers and the gunrunners and the criminals. No one has a 
stronger interest in safe streets and good schools and laws being 
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  President Obama's got this responsibility and he has refused to 
fulfill his constitutional responsibility as Commander in Chief to 
execute the laws faithfully. The House of Representatives is doing our 
job and honoring our word to the American people to preserve, protect, 
and defend the America we love by enforcing the law.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair will remind Members to refrain from 
engaging in personalities toward the President.
  Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD. Madam Chairwoman, how much time is remaining on 
each side?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from California has 38 minutes 
remaining. The gentleman from Texas has 32\1/2\ minutes remaining.
  Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD. Madam Chairwoman, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro).
  Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Chair, with this bill, the majority plays a 
dangerous game with our national security. We all know why they are 
doing this. They want to tie the President's hands on immigration 
because they do not agree with him there. But by acting this way, the 
majority has torn up what should be a fundamental rule of American 
politics: that we do not play politics with the security of our Nation.
  The fact that the majority chooses to gamble with Homeland Security, 
of all budgets, is troubling, to say the least. At a time when we face 
a higher terrorist threat, these tactics are potentially deadly.
  Let us recall that the Department of Homeland Security was born out 
of the searing attacks on this Nation on September 11, 2001. We created 
it to protect our country against further atrocities. Three thousand 
people died. We have seen what our enemies are capable of. We saw it in 
the Boston Marathon bombing last year. We saw it again over the past 
week in a shocking series of terrorist murders in Paris.
  Funding for national security programs should be sacrosanct. 
Republicans and Democrats could so easily have come together to pass a 
full-year funding bill. Instead, the majority chooses tactics that put 
the security of American families at risk.
  They have allowed three nongermane amendments. The American people 
know about this nongermaneness. They have added that to this bill. That 
seeks only to make life harder for immigrant families. I remember in 
2007 when Chairman Rogers, the chair of the Appropriations Committee, 
said on this floor:

       There is no more important chore that the Congress has . . 
     . than to protect the country as best we can from its enemies 
     and from natural disasters. That is what this bill is all 
     about.

  Well, his party should take his advice now.
  These games are dangerous. They are disgraceful. They are wrong. I 
will vote against this bill, and I urge my colleagues to do the same.
  Mr. CARTER. Madam Chair, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Dent).
  Mr. DENT. Madam Chairwoman, I rise today in strong support of H.R. 
240, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, which 
Judge Carter, Mr. Price, myself, and others helped draft in the 
Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Homeland Security. This bill, 
despite what you may have heard, is a product of bipartisan compromise.
  It provides $47.8 billion to fund the agencies of the Department of 
Homeland Security through fiscal year 2015.
  It includes $7 billion for emergency disaster relief to assist those 
suffering the effects of severe winter snowstorms that have hit the 
northern United States; wildfires that have ravaged the West; floods; 
tornadoes; and other natural disasters.
  The bill also provides $213 million for OCO, or the Overseas 
Contingency Operations of the Coast Guard, as they continue to play a 
vital role in the support of our military abroad.
  In our deliberations on this bill, the committee took very seriously 
the crisis that has unfolded on our southwestern border as we 
experience the surge of unaccompanied minors, primarily from the 
Central American countries of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. It 
is estimated that nearly 70,000 unaccompanied children entered 
illegally in 2014 alone. The bill also allows certain FEMA grants to be 
used to reimburse State and local governments for the excessive costs 
associated with humanely detaining and processing these unaccompanied 
minors. In response to the influx of families that have crossed the 
southwest border, it allocates an additional $362 million for detention 
capability and capacity, including 3,732 new family detention beds.
  This legislation fully funds CBP, or Customs and Border Protection, 
and its 21,370 agents who provide not only security at our northern and 
southern borders, but also at our many ports of entry where goods come 
and go from all over the world.
  In light of the recent security incidents at the White House, the 
bill includes funding to improve security at the White House and Vice 
President's residence through additional fiscal infrastructure and 
resources such as tactical canine units.
  It also direct resources for the Secret Service to begin preparations 
for the Presidential candidate protection ahead of the 2016 
Presidential election.
  We have all seen the recent events in the news that demonstrate the 
importance of being proactive on security in the cyber realm. Just 
yesterday, we saw social media accounts that the U.S. Central Command, 
or CENTCOM, was hacked by ISIS or their sympathizers. Last month, a 
major cyberattack allegedly perpetrated by North Korea compromised 
sensitive data belonging to the Sony Corporation.
  This legislation provides an increase in funding for the National 
Protection and Programs Directorate to support infrastructure 
protection, information security, and cybersecurity. We cannot afford 
to take a passive approach to protecting critical network 
communications.
  This bill also funds construction of the National Bio and Agro-
Defense Facility to ensure the security of our Nation's food supply, 
something I think all too often we have taken for granted. This 
facility will strengthen our Nation's capability to conduct research 
and develop vaccines and other countermeasures to prepare and respond 
against diseases that could seriously threaten our crops and livestock.
  Finally, this fiscally responsible appropriations bill reduces the 
administration overhead costs of the Department of Homeland Security by 
$6 million below the fiscal year 2014 enacted level.
  Again, I would like to thank Chairman Carter, Mr. Price, and the 
staff of both sides of the aisle that worked really hard to get this 
legislation to the point where it is. The underlying bill is a good 
bill. Notwithstanding any of the amendments that are going to be 
considered tomorrow, this bill should be supported on its merits, and 
it has a strong bipartisan vote.
  I urge a ``yes'' vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Committee will rise informally.
  The Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Poe of Texas) assumed the chair.

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