[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 14, 2015)]
[House]
[Pages H363-H394]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS ACT OF 2015


                             General Leave

  Mr. CARTER of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all 
Members have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their 
remarks, including extraneous material, on further consideration of 
H.R. 240, and that I may include tabular material on the same.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania.) Is there 
objection to the request of the gentleman from Texas?
  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 further consideration of the bill, 
H.R. 240.
  Will the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Davis) kindly take the chair.

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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 further 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. Rodney Davis of Illinois (Acting Chair) in 
the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose on Tuesday, 
January 13, 2015, all time for general debate had expired.
  Pursuant to the rule, the bill shall be considered for amendment 
under the 5-minute rule. The bill shall be considered as read.
  The text of the bill is as follows:

                                H.R. 240

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 
     following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
     Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of 
     Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
     2015, and for other purposes, namely:

                                TITLE I

                 DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS

            Office of the Secretary and Executive Management

       For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary of 
     Homeland Security, as authorized by section 102 of the 
     Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 112), and executive 
     management of the Department of Homeland Security, as 
     authorized by law, $132,573,000:  Provided, That not to 
     exceed $45,000 shall be for official reception and 
     representation expenses:  Provided further, That all official 
     costs associated with the use of government aircraft by 
     Department of Homeland Security personnel to support official 
     travel of the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary shall be 
     paid from amounts made available for the Immediate Office of 
     the Secretary and the Immediate Office of the Deputy 
     Secretary:  Provided further, That not later than 30 days 
     after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
     Homeland Security shall submit to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 
     Representatives, the Committees on the Judiciary of the House 
     of Representatives and the Senate, the Committee on Homeland 
     Security of the House of Representatives, and the Committee 
     on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, 
     a comprehensive plan for implementation of the biometric 
     entry and exit data system required under section 7208 of the 
     Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (8 
     U.S.C. 1365b), including the estimated costs for 
     implementation.

              Office of the Under Secretary for Management

       For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary 
     for Management, as authorized by sections 701 through 705 of 
     the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 341 through 345), 
     $187,503,000, of which not to exceed $2,250 shall be for 
     official reception and representation expenses:  Provided, 
     That of the total amount made available under this heading, 
     $4,493,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2016, 
     solely for the alteration and improvement of facilities, 
     tenant improvements, and relocation costs to consolidate 
     Department headquarters operations at the Nebraska Avenue 
     Complex; and $6,000,000 shall remain available until 
     September 30, 2016, for the Human Resources Information 
     Technology program:  Provided further, That the Under 
     Secretary for Management shall include in the President's 
     budget proposal for fiscal year 2016, submitted pursuant to 
     section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, a 
     Comprehensive Acquisition Status Report, which shall include 
     the information required under the heading ``Office of the 
     Under Secretary for Management'' under title I of division D 
     of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112-
     74), and shall submit quarterly updates to such report not 
     later than 45 days after the completion of each quarter.

                 Office of the Chief Financial Officer

       For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Financial 
     Officer, as authorized by section 103 of the Homeland 
     Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 113), $52,020,000:  Provided, 
     That the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit to the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 
     Representatives, at the time the President's budget proposal 
     for fiscal year 2016 is submitted pursuant to section 1105(a) 
     of title 31, United States Code, the Future Years Homeland 
     Security Program, as authorized by section 874 of Public Law 
     107-296 (6 U.S.C. 454).

                Office of the Chief Information Officer

       For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief 
     Information Officer, as authorized by section 103 of the 
     Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 113), and Department-
     wide technology investments, $288,122,000; of which 
     $99,028,000 shall be available for salaries and expenses; and 
     of which $189,094,000, to remain available until September 
     30, 2016, shall be available for development and acquisition 
     of information technology equipment, software, services, and 
     related activities for the Department of Homeland Security.

                        Analysis and Operations

       For necessary expenses for intelligence analysis and 
     operations coordination activities, as authorized by title II 
     of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 121 et seq.), 
     $255,804,000; of which not to exceed $3,825 shall be for 
     official reception and representation expenses; and of which 
     $102,479,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2016.

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                      Office of Inspector General

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
     in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act 
     of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), $118,617,000; of which not to exceed 
     $300,000 may be used for certain confidential operational 
     expenses, including the payment of informants, to be expended 
     at the direction of the Inspector General.

                                TITLE II

               SECURITY, ENFORCEMENT, AND INVESTIGATIONS

                   U.S. Customs and Border Protection

                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses for enforcement of laws relating to 
     border security, immigration, customs, agricultural 
     inspections and regulatory activities related to plant and 
     animal imports, and transportation of unaccompanied minor 
     aliens; purchase and lease of up to 7,500 (6,500 for 
     replacement only) police-type vehicles; and contracting with 
     individuals for personal services abroad; $8,459,657,000; of 
     which $3,274,000 shall be derived from the Harbor Maintenance 
     Trust Fund for administrative expenses related to the 
     collection of the Harbor Maintenance Fee pursuant to section 
     9505(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 
     9505(c)(3)) and notwithstanding section 1511(e)(1) of the 
     Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 551(e)(1)); of which 
     $30,000,000 shall be available until September 30, 2016, 
     solely for the purpose of hiring, training, and equipping 
     U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at ports of 
     entry; of which not to exceed $34,425 shall be for official 
     reception and representation expenses; of which such sums as 
     become available in the Customs User Fee Account, except sums 
     subject to section 13031(f)(3) of the Consolidated Omnibus 
     Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 U.S.C. 58c(f)(3)), 
     shall be derived from that account; of which not to exceed 
     $150,000 shall be available for payment for rental space in 
     connection with preclearance operations; and of which not to 
     exceed $1,000,000 shall be for awards of compensation to 
     informants, to be accounted for solely under the certificate 
     of the Secretary of Homeland Security:  Provided, That for 
     fiscal year 2015, the overtime limitation prescribed in 
     section 5(c)(1) of the Act of February 13, 1911 (19 U.S.C. 
     267(c)(1)) shall be $35,000; and notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, none of the funds appropriated by this Act 
     shall be available to compensate any employee of U.S. Customs 
     and Border Protection for overtime, from whatever source, in 
     an amount that exceeds such limitation, except in individual 
     cases determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security, or 
     the designee of the Secretary, to be necessary for national 
     security purposes, to prevent excessive costs, or in cases of 
     immigration emergencies:  Provided further, That the Border 
     Patrol shall maintain an active duty presence of not less 
     than 21,370 full-time equivalent agents protecting the 
     borders of the United States in the fiscal year.

                        automation modernization

       For necessary expenses for U.S. Customs and Border 
     Protection for operation and improvement of automated 
     systems, including salaries and expenses, $808,169,000; of 
     which $446,075,000 shall remain available until September 30, 
     2017; and of which not less than $140,970,000 shall be for 
     the development of the Automated Commercial Environment.

        border security fencing, infrastructure, and technology

       For expenses for border security fencing, infrastructure, 
     and technology, $382,466,000, to remain available until 
     September 30, 2017.

                       air and marine operations

       For necessary expenses for the operations, maintenance, and 
     procurement of marine vessels, aircraft, unmanned aircraft 
     systems, the Air and Marine Operations Center, and other 
     related equipment of the air and marine program, including 
     salaries and expenses, operational training, and mission-
     related travel, the operations of which include the 
     following: the interdiction of narcotics and other goods; the 
     provision of support to Federal, State, and local agencies in 
     the enforcement or administration of laws enforced by the 
     Department of Homeland Security; and, at the discretion of 
     the Secretary of Homeland Security, the provision of 
     assistance to Federal, State, and local agencies in other law 
     enforcement and emergency humanitarian efforts; $750,469,000; 
     of which $299,800,000 shall be available for salaries and 
     expenses; and of which $450,669,000 shall remain available 
     until September 30, 2017:  Provided, That no aircraft or 
     other related equipment, with the exception of aircraft that 
     are one of a kind and have been identified as excess to U.S. 
     Customs and Border Protection requirements and aircraft that 
     have been damaged beyond repair, shall be transferred to any 
     other Federal agency, department, or office outside of the 
     Department of Homeland Security during fiscal year 2015 
     without prior notice to the Committees on Appropriations of 
     the Senate and the House of Representatives:  Provided 
     further, That funding made available under this heading shall 
     be available for customs expenses when necessary to maintain 
     or to temporarily increase operations in Puerto Rico:  
     Provided further, That the Secretary of Homeland Security 
     shall report to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     Senate and the House of Representatives, not later than 90 
     days after the date of enactment of this Act, on any changes 
     to the 5-year strategic plan for the air and marine program 
     required under the heading ``Air and Marine Interdiction, 
     Operations, and Maintenance'' in Public Law 112-74.

                 construction and facilities management

       For necessary expenses to plan, acquire, construct, 
     renovate, equip, furnish, operate, manage, and maintain 
     buildings, facilities, and related infrastructure necessary 
     for the administration and enforcement of the laws relating 
     to customs, immigration, and border security, $288,821,000, 
     to remain available until September 30, 2019.

               U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses for enforcement of immigration and 
     customs laws, detention and removals, and investigations, 
     including intellectual property rights and overseas vetted 
     units operations; and purchase and lease of up to 3,790 
     (2,350 for replacement only) police-type vehicles; 
     $5,932,756,000; of which not to exceed $10,000,000 shall be 
     available until expended for conducting special operations 
     under section 3131 of the Customs Enforcement Act of 1986 (19 
     U.S.C. 2081); of which not to exceed $11,475 shall be for 
     official reception and representation expenses; of which not 
     to exceed $2,000,000 shall be for awards of compensation to 
     informants, to be accounted for solely under the certificate 
     of the Secretary of Homeland Security; of which not less than 
     $305,000 shall be for promotion of public awareness of the 
     child pornography tipline and activities to counter child 
     exploitation; of which not less than $5,400,000 shall be used 
     to facilitate agreements consistent with section 287(g) of 
     the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1357(g)); of 
     which not to exceed $40,000,000, to remain available until 
     September 30, 2017, is for maintenance, construction, and 
     lease hold improvements at owned and leased facilities; and 
     of which not to exceed $11,216,000 shall be available to fund 
     or reimburse other Federal agencies for the costs associated 
     with the care, maintenance, and repatriation of smuggled 
     aliens unlawfully present in the United States:  Provided, 
     That none of the funds made available under this heading 
     shall be available to compensate any employee for overtime in 
     an annual amount in excess of $35,000, except that the 
     Secretary of Homeland Security, or the designee of the 
     Secretary, may waive that amount as necessary for national 
     security purposes and in cases of immigration emergencies:  
     Provided further, That of the total amount provided, 
     $15,770,000 shall be for activities to enforce laws against 
     forced child labor, of which not to exceed $6,000,000 shall 
     remain available until expended:  Provided further, That of 
     the total amount available, not less than $1,600,000,000 
     shall be available to identify aliens convicted of a crime 
     who may be deportable, and to remove them from the United 
     States once they are judged deportable:  Provided further, 
     That the Secretary of Homeland Security shall prioritize the 
     identification and removal of aliens convicted of a crime by 
     the severity of that crime:  Provided further, That funding 
     made available under this heading shall maintain a level of 
     not less than 34,000 detention beds through September 30, 
     2015:  Provided further, That of the total amount provided, 
     not less than $3,431,444,000 is for detention, enforcement, 
     and removal operations, including transportation of 
     unaccompanied minor aliens:  Provided further, That of the 
     amount provided for Custody Operations in the previous 
     proviso, $45,000,000 shall remain available until September 
     30, 2019:  Provided further, That of the total amount 
     provided for the Visa Security Program and international 
     investigations, $43,000,000 shall remain available until 
     September 30, 2016:  Provided further, That not less than 
     $15,000,000 shall be available for investigation of 
     intellectual property rights violations, including operation 
     of the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination 
     Center:  Provided further, That none of the funds provided 
     under this heading may be used to continue a delegation of 
     law enforcement authority authorized under section 287(g) of 
     the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1357(g)) if the 
     Department of Homeland Security Inspector General determines 
     that the terms of the agreement governing the delegation of 
     authority have been materially violated:  Provided further, 
     That none of the funds provided under this heading may be 
     used to continue any contract for the provision of detention 
     services if the two most recent overall performance 
     evaluations received by the contracted facility are less than 
     ``adequate'' or the equivalent median score in any subsequent 
     performance evaluation system:  Provided further, That 
     nothing under this heading shall prevent U.S. Immigration and 
     Customs Enforcement from exercising those authorities 
     provided under immigration laws (as defined in section 
     101(a)(17) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
     1101(a)(17))) during priority operations pertaining to aliens 
     convicted of a crime:  Provided further, That without regard 
     to the limitation as to time and condition of section 503(d) 
     of this Act, the Secretary may propose to reprogram and 
     transfer funds within and into this appropriation necessary 
     to ensure the detention of aliens prioritized for removal.

                        automation modernization

       For expenses of immigration and customs enforcement 
     automated systems, $26,000,000, to remain available until 
     September 30, 2017.

                 Transportation Security Administration

                           aviation security

       For necessary expenses of the Transportation Security 
     Administration related to

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     providing civil aviation security services pursuant to the 
     Aviation and Transportation Security Act (Public Law 107-71; 
     115 Stat. 597; 49 U.S.C. 40101 note), $5,639,095,000, to 
     remain available until September 30, 2016; of which not to 
     exceed $7,650 shall be for official reception and 
     representation expenses:  Provided, That any award to deploy 
     explosives detection systems shall be based on risk, the 
     airport's current reliance on other screening solutions, 
     lobby congestion resulting in increased security concerns, 
     high injury rates, airport readiness, and increased cost 
     effectiveness:  Provided further, That security service fees 
     authorized under section 44940 of title 49, United States 
     Code, shall be credited to this appropriation as offsetting 
     collections and shall be available only for aviation 
     security:  Provided further, That the sum appropriated under 
     this heading from the general fund shall be reduced on a 
     dollar-for-dollar basis as such offsetting collections are 
     received during fiscal year 2015 so as to result in a final 
     fiscal year appropriation from the general fund estimated at 
     not more than $3,574,095,000:  Provided further, That the 
     fees deposited under this heading in fiscal year 2013 and 
     sequestered pursuant to section 251A of the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901a), 
     that are currently unavailable for obligation, are hereby 
     permanently cancelled:  Provided further, That 
     notwithstanding section 44923 of title 49, United States 
     Code, for fiscal year 2015, any funds in the Aviation 
     Security Capital Fund established by section 44923(h) of 
     title 49, United States Code, may be used for the procurement 
     and installation of explosives detection systems or for the 
     issuance of other transaction agreements for the purpose of 
     funding projects described in section 44923(a) of such title: 
      Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision 
     of law, mobile explosives detection equipment purchased and 
     deployed using funds made available under this heading may be 
     moved and redeployed to meet evolving passenger and baggage 
     screening security priorities at airports:  Provided further, 
     That none of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
     for any recruiting or hiring of personnel into the 
     Transportation Security Administration that would cause the 
     agency to exceed a staffing level of 45,000 full-time 
     equivalent screeners:  Provided further, That the preceding 
     proviso shall not apply to personnel hired as part-time 
     employees:  Provided further, That not later than 90 days 
     after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of 
     the Transportation Security Administration shall submit to 
     the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House 
     of Representatives a detailed report on--
       (1) the Department of Homeland Security efforts and 
     resources being devoted to develop more advanced integrated 
     passenger screening technologies for the most effective 
     security of passengers and baggage at the lowest possible 
     operating and acquisition costs, including projected funding 
     levels for each fiscal year for the next 5 years or until 
     project completion, whichever is earlier;
       (2) how the Transportation Security Administration is 
     deploying its existing passenger and baggage screener 
     workforce in the most cost effective manner; and
       (3) labor savings from the deployment of improved 
     technologies for passenger and baggage screening and how 
     those savings are being used to offset security costs or 
     reinvested to address security vulnerabilities:

       Provided further, That not later than April 15, 2015, the 
     Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration 
     shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     Senate and the House of Representatives, a semiannual report 
     updating information on a strategy to increase the number of 
     air passengers eligible for expedited screening, including:
       (1) specific benchmarks and performance measures to 
     increase participation in Pre-Check by air carriers, 
     airports, and passengers;
       (2) options to facilitate direct application for enrollment 
     in Pre-Check through the Transportation Security 
     Administration's Web site, airports, and other enrollment 
     locations;
       (3) use of third parties to pre-screen passengers for 
     expedited screening;
       (4) inclusion of populations already vetted by the 
     Transportation Security Administration and other trusted 
     populations as eligible for expedited screening;
       (5) resource implications of expedited passenger screening 
     resulting from the use of risk-based security methods; and
       (6) the total number and percentage of passengers using 
     Pre-Check lanes who:
       (A) have enrolled in Pre-Check since Transportation 
     Security Administration enrollment centers were established;
       (B) enrolled using the Transportation Security 
     Administration's Pre-Check application Web site;
       (C) were enrolled as frequent flyers of a participating 
     airline;
       (D) utilized Pre-Check as a result of their enrollment in a 
     Trusted Traveler program of U.S. Customs and Border 
     Protection;
       (E) were selectively identified to participate in expedited 
     screening through the use of Managed Inclusion in fiscal year 
     2014; and
       (F) are enrolled in all other Pre-Check categories:

       Provided further, That Members of the United States House 
     of Representatives and United States Senate, including the 
     leadership; the heads of Federal agencies and commissions, 
     including the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Under Secretaries, 
     and Assistant Secretaries of the Department of Homeland 
     Security; the United States Attorney General, Deputy Attorney 
     General, Assistant Attorneys General, and the United States 
     Attorneys; and senior members of the Executive Office of the 
     President, including the Director of the Office of Management 
     and Budget, shall not be exempt from Federal passenger and 
     baggage screening.

                    surface transportation security

       For necessary expenses of the Transportation Security 
     Administration related to surface transportation security 
     activities, $123,749,000, to remain available until September 
     30, 2016.

                        intelligence and vetting

       For necessary expenses for the development and 
     implementation of intelligence and vetting activities, 
     $219,166,000, to remain available until September 30, 2016.

                    transportation security support

       For necessary expenses of the Transportation Security 
     Administration related to transportation security support 
     pursuant to the Aviation and Transportation Security Act 
     (Public Law 107-71; 115 Stat. 597; 49 U.S.C. 40101 note), 
     $917,226,000, to remain available until September 30, 2016:  
     Provided, That not later than 90 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the 
     Transportation Security Administration shall submit to the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 
     Representatives--
       (1) a report providing evidence demonstrating that 
     behavioral indicators can be used to identify passengers who 
     may pose a threat to aviation security and the plans that 
     will be put into place to collect additional performance 
     data; and
       (2) a report addressing each of the recommendations 
     outlined in the report entitled ``TSA Needs Additional 
     Information Before Procuring Next-Generation Systems'', 
     published by the Government Accountability Office on March 
     31, 2014, and describing the steps the Transportation 
     Security Administration is taking to implement acquisition 
     best practices, increase industry engagement, and improve 
     transparency with regard to technology acquisition programs:

       Provided further, That of the funds provided under this 
     heading, $25,000,000 shall be withheld from obligation for 
     Headquarters Administration until the submission of the 
     reports required by paragraphs (1) and (2) of the preceding 
     proviso.

                              Coast Guard

                           operating expenses

       For necessary expenses for the operation and maintenance of 
     the Coast Guard, not otherwise provided for; purchase or 
     lease of not to exceed 25 passenger motor vehicles, which 
     shall be for replacement only; purchase or lease of small 
     boats for contingent and emergent requirements (at a unit 
     cost of no more than $700,000) and repairs and service-life 
     replacements, not to exceed a total of $31,000,000; purchase 
     or lease of boats necessary for overseas deployments and 
     activities; minor shore construction projects not exceeding 
     $1,000,000 in total cost on any location; payments pursuant 
     to section 156 of Public Law 97-377 (42 U.S.C. 402 note; 96 
     Stat. 1920); and recreation and welfare; $7,043,318,000, of 
     which $553,000,000 shall be for defense-related activities, 
     of which $213,000,000 is designated by the Congress for 
     Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and shall be available 
     only if the President subsequently so designates all such 
     amounts and transmits such designations to the Congress; of 
     which $24,500,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill 
     Liability Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of section 
     1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 
     2712(a)(5)); and of which not to exceed $15,300 shall be for 
     official reception and representation expenses:  Provided, 
     That none of the funds made available by this Act shall be 
     for expenses incurred for recreational vessels under section 
     12114 of title 46, United States Code, except to the extent 
     fees are collected from owners of yachts and credited to this 
     appropriation:  Provided further, That to the extent fees are 
     insufficient to pay expenses of recreational vessel 
     documentation under such section 12114, and there is a 
     backlog of recreational vessel applications, then personnel 
     performing non-recreational vessel documentation functions 
     under subchapter II of chapter 121 of title 46, United States 
     Code, may perform documentation under section 12114:  
     Provided further, That of the funds provided under this 
     heading, $85,000,000 shall be withheld from obligation for 
     Coast Guard Headquarters Directorates until a future-years 
     capital investment plan for fiscal years 2016 through 2020, 
     as specified under the heading ``Coast Guard, Acquisition, 
     Construction, and Improvements'' of this Act, is submitted to 
     the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House 
     of Representatives:  Provided further, That funds made 
     available under this heading for Overseas Contingency 
     Operations/Global War on Terrorism may be allocated by 
     program, project, and activity, notwithstanding section 503 
     of this Act:  Provided further, That, without regard to the 
     limitation as to time and condition of section 503(d) of this 
     Act, after June 30, up to $10,000,000 may be reprogrammed to 
     or from Military Pay and Allowances in accordance with 
     subsections (a), (b), and (c) of section 503.

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                environmental compliance and restoration

       For necessary expenses to carry out the environmental 
     compliance and restoration functions of the Coast Guard under 
     chapter 19 of title 14, United States Code, $13,197,000, to 
     remain available until September 30, 2019.

                            reserve training

       For necessary expenses of the Coast Guard Reserve, as 
     authorized by law; operations and maintenance of the Coast 
     Guard reserve program; personnel and training costs; and 
     equipment and services; $114,572,000.

              acquisition, construction, and improvements

       For necessary expenses of acquisition, construction, 
     renovation, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore 
     facilities, vessels, and aircraft, including equipment 
     related thereto; and maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, and 
     operation of facilities and equipment; as authorized by law; 
     $1,225,223,000; of which $20,000,000 shall be derived from 
     the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry out the purposes 
     of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 
     U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)); and of which the following amounts shall 
     be available until September 30, 2019 (except as subsequently 
     specified): $6,000,000 for military family housing; 
     $824,347,000 to acquire, effect major repairs to, renovate, 
     or improve vessels, small boats, and related equipment; 
     $180,000,000 to acquire, effect major repairs to, renovate, 
     or improve aircraft or increase aviation capability; 
     $59,300,000 for other acquisition programs; $40,580,000 for 
     shore facilities and aids to navigation, including facilities 
     at Department of Defense installations used by the Coast 
     Guard; and $114,996,000, to remain available until September 
     30, 2015, for personnel compensation and benefits and related 
     costs:  Provided, That the funds provided by this Act shall 
     be immediately available and allotted to contract for the 
     production of the eighth National Security Cutter 
     notwithstanding the availability of funds for post-production 
     costs:  Provided further, That the Commandant of the Coast 
     Guard shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     Senate and the House of Representatives, the Committee on 
     Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, and the 
     Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House 
     of Representatives, at the time the President's budget 
     proposal for fiscal year 2016 is submitted pursuant to 
     section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, a future-
     years capital investment plan for the Coast Guard that 
     identifies for each requested capital asset--
       (1) the proposed appropriations included in that budget;
       (2) the total estimated cost of completion, including and 
     clearly delineating the costs of associated major acquisition 
     systems infrastructure and transition to operations;
       (3) projected funding levels for each fiscal year for the 
     next 5 fiscal years or until acquisition program baseline or 
     project completion, whichever is earlier;
       (4) an estimated completion date at the projected funding 
     levels; and
       (5) a current acquisition program baseline for each capital 
     asset, as applicable, that--
       (A) includes the total acquisition cost of each asset, 
     subdivided by fiscal year and including a detailed 
     description of the purpose of the proposed funding levels for 
     each fiscal year, including for each fiscal year funds 
     requested for design, pre-acquisition activities, production, 
     structural modifications, missionization, post-delivery, and 
     transition to operations costs;
       (B) includes a detailed project schedule through 
     completion, subdivided by fiscal year, that details--
       (i) quantities planned for each fiscal year; and
       (ii) major acquisition and project events, including 
     development of operational requirements, contracting actions, 
     design reviews, production, delivery, test and evaluation, 
     and transition to operations, including necessary training, 
     shore infrastructure, and logistics;
       (C) notes and explains any deviations in cost, performance 
     parameters, schedule, or estimated date of completion from 
     the original acquisition program baseline and the most recent 
     baseline approved by the Department of Homeland Security's 
     Acquisition Review Board, if applicable;
       (D) aligns the acquisition of each asset to mission 
     requirements by defining existing capabilities of comparable 
     legacy assets, identifying known capability gaps between such 
     existing capabilities and stated mission requirements, and 
     explaining how the acquisition of each asset will address 
     such known capability gaps;
       (E) defines life-cycle costs for each asset and the date of 
     the estimate on which such costs are based, including all 
     associated costs of major acquisitions systems infrastructure 
     and transition to operations, delineated by purpose and 
     fiscal year for the projected service life of the asset;
       (F) includes the earned value management system summary 
     schedule performance index and cost performance index for 
     each asset, if applicable; and
       (G) includes a phase-out and decommissioning schedule 
     delineated by fiscal year for each existing legacy asset that 
     each asset is intended to replace or recapitalize:

       Provided further, That the Commandant of the Coast Guard 
     shall ensure that amounts specified in the future-years 
     capital investment plan are consistent, to the maximum extent 
     practicable, with proposed appropriations necessary to 
     support the programs, projects, and activities of the Coast 
     Guard in the President's budget proposal for fiscal year 
     2016, submitted pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31, 
     United States Code:  Provided further, That any 
     inconsistencies between the capital investment plan and 
     proposed appropriations shall be identified and justified:  
     Provided further, That the Director of the Office of 
     Management and Budget shall not delay the submission of the 
     capital investment plan referred to by the preceding 
     provisos:  Provided further, That the Director of the Office 
     of Management and Budget shall have no more than a single 
     period of 10 consecutive business days to review the capital 
     investment plan prior to submission:  Provided further, That 
     the Secretary of Homeland Security shall notify the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 
     Representatives, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
     Transportation of the Senate, and the Committee on 
     Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 
     Representatives one day after the capital investment plan is 
     submitted to the Office of Management and Budget for review 
     and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall 
     notify the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the 
     House of Representatives, the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
     and Transportation of the Senate, and the Committee on 
     Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 
     Representatives when such review is completed:  Provided 
     further, That subsections (a) and (b) of section 6402 of 
     Public Law 110-28 shall hereafter apply with respect to the 
     amounts made available under this heading.

              research, development, test, and evaluation

       For necessary expenses for applied scientific research, 
     development, test, and evaluation; and for maintenance, 
     rehabilitation, lease, and operation of facilities and 
     equipment; as authorized by law; $17,892,000, to remain 
     available until September 30, 2017, of which $500,000 shall 
     be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry 
     out the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution 
     Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)):  Provided, That there may 
     be credited to and used for the purposes of this 
     appropriation funds received from State and local 
     governments, other public authorities, private sources, and 
     foreign countries for expenses incurred for research, 
     development, testing, and evaluation.

                              retired pay

       For retired pay, including the payment of obligations 
     otherwise chargeable to lapsed appropriations for this 
     purpose, payments under the Retired Serviceman's Family 
     Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans, payment for career 
     status bonuses, concurrent receipts, and combat-related 
     special compensation under the National Defense Authorization 
     Act, and payments for medical care of retired personnel and 
     their dependents under chapter 55 of title 10, United States 
     Code, $1,450,626,000, to remain available until expended.

                      United States Secret Service

                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses of the United States Secret Service, 
     including purchase of not to exceed 652 vehicles for police-
     type use for replacement only; hire of passenger motor 
     vehicles; purchase of motorcycles made in the United States; 
     hire of aircraft; services of expert witnesses at such rates 
     as may be determined by the Director of the United States 
     Secret Service; rental of buildings in the District of 
     Columbia, and fencing, lighting, guard booths, and other 
     facilities on private or other property not in Government 
     ownership or control, as may be necessary to perform 
     protective functions; payment of per diem or subsistence 
     allowances to employees in cases in which a protective 
     assignment on the actual day or days of the visit of a 
     protectee requires an employee to work 16 hours per day or to 
     remain overnight at a post of duty; conduct of and 
     participation in firearms matches; presentation of awards; 
     travel of United States Secret Service employees on 
     protective missions without regard to the limitations on such 
     expenditures in this or any other Act if approval is obtained 
     in advance from the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     Senate and the House of Representatives; research and 
     development; grants to conduct behavioral research in support 
     of protective research and operations; and payment in advance 
     for commercial accommodations as may be necessary to perform 
     protective functions; $1,615,860,000; of which not to exceed 
     $19,125 shall be for official reception and representation 
     expenses; of which not to exceed $100,000 shall be to provide 
     technical assistance and equipment to foreign law enforcement 
     organizations in counterfeit investigations; of which 
     $2,366,000 shall be for forensic and related support of 
     investigations of missing and exploited children; of which 
     $6,000,000 shall be for a grant for activities related to 
     investigations of missing and exploited children and shall 
     remain available until September 30, 2016; and of which not 
     less than $12,000,000 shall be for activities related to 
     training in electronic crimes investigations and forensics:  
     Provided, That $18,000,000 for protective travel shall remain 
     available until September 30, 2016:  Provided further, That 
     $4,500,000 for National Special Security Events shall remain 
     available until September 30, 2016:  Provided further, That 
     the United States Secret Service is authorized to

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     obligate funds in anticipation of reimbursements from Federal 
     agencies and entities, as defined in section 105 of title 5, 
     United States Code, for personnel receiving training 
     sponsored by the James J. Rowley Training Center, except that 
     total obligations at the end of the fiscal year shall not 
     exceed total budgetary resources available under this heading 
     at the end of the fiscal year:  Provided further, That none 
     of the funds made available under this heading shall be 
     available to compensate any employee for overtime in an 
     annual amount in excess of $35,000, except that the Secretary 
     of Homeland Security, or the designee of the Secretary, may 
     waive that amount as necessary for national security 
     purposes:  Provided further, That none of the funds made 
     available to the United States Secret Service by this Act or 
     by previous appropriations Acts may be made available for the 
     protection of the head of a Federal agency other than the 
     Secretary of Homeland Security:  Provided further, That the 
     Director of the United States Secret Service may enter into 
     an agreement to provide such protection on a fully 
     reimbursable basis:  Provided further, That none of the funds 
     made available to the United States Secret Service by this 
     Act or by previous appropriations Acts may be obligated for 
     the purpose of opening a new permanent domestic or overseas 
     office or location unless the Committees on Appropriations of 
     the Senate and the House of Representatives are notified 15 
     days in advance of such obligation:  Provided further, That 
     not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this 
     Act, the Director of the United States Secret Service shall 
     submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and 
     the House of Representatives, a report providing evidence 
     that the United States Secret Service has sufficiently 
     reviewed its professional standards of conduct; and has 
     issued new guidance and procedures for the conduct of 
     employees when engaged in overseas operations and protective 
     missions, consistent with the critical missions of, and the 
     unique position of public trust occupied by, the United 
     States Secret Service:  Provided further, That of the funds 
     provided under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be withheld 
     from obligation for Headquarters, Management and 
     Administration until such report is submitted:  Provided 
     further, That for purposes of section 503(b) of this Act, 
     $15,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, may be 
     transferred between Protection of Persons and Facilities and 
     Domestic Field Operations.

     acquisition, construction, improvements, and related expenses

       For necessary expenses for acquisition, construction, 
     repair, alteration, and improvement of physical and 
     technological infrastructure, $49,935,000; of which 
     $5,380,000, to remain available until September 30, 2019, 
     shall be for acquisition, construction, improvement, and 
     maintenance of the James J. Rowley Training Center; and of 
     which $44,555,000, to remain available until September 30, 
     2017, shall be for Information Integration and Technology 
     Transformation program execution.

                               TITLE III

            PROTECTION, PREPAREDNESS, RESPONSE, AND RECOVERY

              National Protection and Programs Directorate

                     management and administration

       For salaries and expenses of the Office of the Under 
     Secretary for the National Protection and Programs 
     Directorate, support for operations, and information 
     technology, $61,651,000:  Provided, That not to exceed $3,825 
     shall be for official reception and representation expenses:  
     Provided further, That the President's budget proposal for 
     fiscal year 2016, submitted pursuant to section 1105(a) of 
     title 31, United States Code, shall be detailed by office, 
     and by program, project, and activity level, for the National 
     Protection and Programs Directorate.

           infrastructure protection and information security

       For necessary expenses for infrastructure protection and 
     information security programs and activities, as authorized 
     by title II of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
     121 et seq.), $1,188,679,000, of which $225,000,000 shall 
     remain available until September 30, 2016:  Provided, That 
     if, due to delays in contract actions, the National 
     Protection and Programs Directorate will not fully obligate 
     funds for Federal Network Security or for Network Security 
     Deployment program, project, and activities as provided in 
     the accompanying statement and section 548 of this Act, such 
     funds may be applied to Next Generation Networks program, 
     project, and activities, notwithstanding section 503 of this 
     Act.

                       federal protective service

       The revenues and collections of security fees credited to 
     this account shall be available until expended for necessary 
     expenses related to the protection of federally owned and 
     leased buildings and for the operations of the Federal 
     Protective Service:  Provided, That the Director of the 
     Federal Protective Service shall submit at the time the 
     President's budget proposal for fiscal year 2016 is submitted 
     pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, 
     a strategic human capital plan that aligns fee collections to 
     personnel requirements based on a current threat assessment.

                office of biometric identity management

       For necessary expenses for the Office of Biometric Identity 
     Management, as authorized by section 7208 of the Intelligence 
     Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (8 U.S.C. 1365b), 
     $252,056,000:  Provided, That of the total amount made 
     available under this heading, $122,150,000 shall remain 
     available until September 30, 2017.

                        Office of Health Affairs

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Health Affairs, 
     $129,358,000; of which $26,148,000 is for salaries and 
     expenses and $86,891,000 is for BioWatch operations:  
     Provided, That of the amount made available under this 
     heading, $16,319,000 shall remain available until September 
     30, 2016, for biosurveillance, chemical defense, medical and 
     health planning and coordination, and workforce health 
     protection:  Provided further, That not to exceed $2,250 
     shall be for official reception and representation expenses.

                  Federal Emergency Management Agency

                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Federal Emergency Management 
     Agency, $934,396,000, including activities authorized by the 
     National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et 
     seq.), the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
     Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), the Cerro Grande 
     Fire Assistance Act of 2000 (division C, title I, 114 Stat. 
     583), the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 
     7701 et seq.), the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 
     App. 2061 et seq.), sections 107 and 303 of the National 
     Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 404, 405), Reorganization 
     Plan No. 3 of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), the National Dam Safety 
     Program Act (33 U.S.C. 467 et seq.), the Homeland Security 
     Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101 et seq.), the Implementing 
     Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (Public 
     Law 110-53), the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 
     1974 (15 U.S.C. 2201 et seq.), the Post-Katrina Emergency 
     Management Reform Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-295; 120 Stat. 
     1394), the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 
     (Public Law 112-141, 126 Stat. 916), and the Homeowner Flood 
     Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-89):  
     Provided, That not to exceed $2,250 shall be for official 
     reception and representation expenses:  Provided further, 
     That of the total amount made available under this heading, 
     $35,180,000 shall be for the Urban Search and Rescue Response 
     System, of which none is available for Federal Emergency 
     Management Agency administrative costs:  Provided further, 
     That of the total amount made available under this heading, 
     $30,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2016, 
     for capital improvements and other expenses related to 
     continuity of operations at the Mount Weather Emergency 
     Operations Center:  Provided further, That of the total 
     amount made available, $3,400,000 shall be for the Office of 
     National Capital Region Coordination:  Provided further, That 
     of the total amount made available under this heading, not 
     less than $4,000,000 shall remain available until September 
     30, 2016, for expenses related to modernization of automated 
     systems.

                        state and local programs

       For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other 
     activities, $1,500,000,000, which shall be allocated as 
     follows:
       (1) $467,000,000 shall be for the State Homeland Security 
     Grant Program under section 2004 of the Homeland Security Act 
     of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 605), of which not less than $55,000,000 
     shall be for Operation Stonegarden:  Provided, That 
     notwithstanding subsection (c)(4) of such section 2004, for 
     fiscal year 2015, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall make 
     available to local and tribal governments amounts provided to 
     the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico under this paragraph in 
     accordance with subsection (c)(1) of such section 2004.
       (2) $600,000,000 shall be for the Urban Area Security 
     Initiative under section 2003 of the Homeland Security Act of 
     2002 (6 U.S.C. 604), of which not less than $13,000,000 shall 
     be for organizations (as described under section 501(c)(3) of 
     the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from tax under 
     section 501(a) of such code) determined by the Secretary of 
     Homeland Security to be at high risk of a terrorist attack.
       (3) $100,000,000 shall be for Public Transportation 
     Security Assistance, Railroad Security Assistance, and Over-
     the-Road Bus Security Assistance under sections 1406, 1513, 
     and 1532 of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 
     Commission Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-53; 6 U.S.C. 1135, 
     1163, and 1182), of which not less than $10,000,000 shall be 
     for Amtrak security and $3,000,000 shall be for Over-the-Road 
     Bus Security:  Provided, That such public transportation 
     security assistance shall be provided directly to public 
     transportation agencies.
       (4) $100,000,000 shall be for Port Security Grants in 
     accordance with 46 U.S.C. 70107.
       (5) $233,000,000 shall be to sustain current operations for 
     training, exercises, technical assistance, and other 
     programs, of which $162,991,000 shall be for training of 
     State, local, and tribal emergency response providers:

       Provided, That for grants under paragraphs (1) through (4), 
     applications for grants shall be made available to eligible 
     applicants not later than 60 days after the date of enactment 
     of this Act, that eligible applicants shall submit 
     applications not later than 80 days after the grant 
     announcement, and the Administrator of the Federal Emergency 
     Management Agency shall act within 65 days after the receipt 
     of an application:  Provided further, That notwithstanding 
     section

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     2008(a)(11) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
     609(a)(11)) or any other provision of law, a grantee may not 
     use more than 5 percent of the amount of a grant made 
     available under this heading for expenses directly related to 
     administration of the grant:  Provided further, That for 
     grants under paragraphs (1) and (2), the installation of 
     communications towers is not considered construction of a 
     building or other physical facility:  Provided further, That 
     grantees shall provide reports on their use of funds, as 
     determined necessary by the Secretary of Homeland Security:  
     Provided further, That notwithstanding section 509 of this 
     Act, the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management 
     Agency may use the funds provided in paragraph (5) to acquire 
     real property for the purpose of establishing or 
     appropriately extending the security buffer zones around 
     Federal Emergency Management Agency training facilities.

                     firefighter assistance grants

       For grants for programs authorized by the Federal Fire 
     Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2201 et seq.), 
     $680,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2016, 
     of which $340,000,000 shall be available to carry out section 
     33 of that Act (15 U.S.C. 2229) and $340,000,000 shall be 
     available to carry out section 34 of that Act (15 U.S.C. 
     2229a).

                emergency management performance grants

       For emergency management performance grants, as authorized 
     by the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4001 
     et seq.), the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
     Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), the 
     Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 7701 et 
     seq.), and Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), 
     $350,000,000.

              radiological emergency preparedness program

       The aggregate charges assessed during fiscal year 2015, as 
     authorized in title III of the Departments of Veterans 
     Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (42 U.S.C. 5196e), shall 
     not be less than 100 percent of the amounts anticipated by 
     the Department of Homeland Security necessary for its 
     radiological emergency preparedness program for the next 
     fiscal year:  Provided, That the methodology for assessment 
     and collection of fees shall be fair and equitable and shall 
     reflect costs of providing such services, including 
     administrative costs of collecting such fees:  Provided 
     further, That fees received under this heading shall be 
     deposited in this account as offsetting collections and will 
     become available for authorized purposes on October 1, 2015, 
     and remain available until expended.

                   united states fire administration

       For necessary expenses of the United States Fire 
     Administration and for other purposes, as authorized by the 
     Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 
     2201 et seq.) and the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
     101 et seq.), $44,000,000.

                          disaster relief fund

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses in carrying out the Robert T. 
     Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
     U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), $7,033,464,494, to remain available 
     until expended, of which $24,000,000 shall be transferred to 
     the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector 
     General for audits and investigations related to disasters:  
     Provided, That the Administrator of the Federal Emergency 
     Management Agency shall submit to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives 
     the following reports, including a specific description of 
     the methodology and the source data used in developing such 
     reports:
       (1) an estimate of the following amounts shall be submitted 
     for the budget year at the time that the President's budget 
     proposal for fiscal year 2016 is submitted pursuant to 
     section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code:
       (A) the unobligated balance of funds to be carried over 
     from the prior fiscal year to the budget year;
       (B) the unobligated balance of funds to be carried over 
     from the budget year to the budget year plus 1;
       (C) the amount of obligations for non-catastrophic events 
     for the budget year;
       (D) the amount of obligations for the budget year for 
     catastrophic events delineated by event and by State;
       (E) the total amount that has been previously obligated or 
     will be required for catastrophic events delineated by event 
     and by State for all prior years, the current year, the 
     budget year, the budget year plus 1, the budget year plus 2, 
     and the budget year plus 3 and beyond;
       (F) the amount of previously obligated funds that will be 
     recovered for the budget year;
       (G) the amount that will be required for obligations for 
     emergencies, as described in section 102(1) of the Robert T. 
     Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
     U.S.C. 5122(1)), major disasters, as described in section 
     102(2) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
     Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122(2)), fire management 
     assistance grants, as described in section 420 of the Robert 
     T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
     U.S.C. 5187), surge activities, and disaster readiness and 
     support activities; and
       (H) the amount required for activities not covered under 
     section 251(b)(2)(D)(iii) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 
     901(b)(2)(D)(iii); Public Law 99-177);
       (2) an estimate or actual amounts, if available, of the 
     following for the current fiscal year shall be submitted not 
     later than the fifth day of each month, and shall be 
     published by the Administrator on the Agency's Web site not 
     later than the fifth day of each month:
       (A) a summary of the amount of appropriations made 
     available by source, the transfers executed, the previously 
     allocated funds recovered, and the commitments, allocations, 
     and obligations made;
       (B) a table of disaster relief activity delineated by 
     month, including--
       (i) the beginning and ending balances;
       (ii) the total obligations to include amounts obligated for 
     fire assistance, emergencies, surge, and disaster support 
     activities;
       (iii) the obligations for catastrophic events delineated by 
     event and by State; and
       (iv) the amount of previously obligated funds that are 
     recovered;
       (C) a summary of allocations, obligations, and expenditures 
     for catastrophic events delineated by event;
       (D) in addition, for a disaster declaration related to 
     Hurricane Sandy, the cost of the following categories of 
     spending: public assistance, individual assistance, 
     mitigation, administrative, operations, and any other 
     relevant category (including emergency measures and disaster 
     resources); and
       (E) the date on which funds appropriated will be exhausted:

       Provided further, That the Administrator shall publish on 
     the Agency's Web site not later than 5 days after an award of 
     a public assistance grant under section 406 of the Robert T. 
     Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
     U.S.C. 5172) the specifics of the grant award:  Provided 
     further, That for any mission assignment or mission 
     assignment task order to another Federal department or agency 
     regarding a major disaster, not later than 5 days after the 
     issuance of the mission assignment or task order, the 
     Administrator shall publish on the Agency's website the 
     following: the name of the impacted State and the disaster 
     declaration for such State, the assigned agency, the 
     assistance requested, a description of the disaster, the 
     total cost estimate, and the amount obligated:  Provided 
     further, That not later than 10 days after the last day of 
     each month until the mission assignment or task order is 
     completed and closed out, the Administrator shall update any 
     changes to the total cost estimate and the amount obligated:  
     Provided further, That of the amount provided under this 
     heading, $6,437,792,622 shall be for major disasters declared 
     pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
     Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.):  Provided 
     further, That the amount in the preceding proviso is 
     designated by the Congress as being for disaster relief 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

             flood hazard mapping and risk analysis program

       For necessary expenses, including administrative costs, 
     under section 1360 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 
     1968 (42 U.S.C. 4101), and under sections 100215, 100216, 
     100226, 100230, and 100246 of the Biggert-Waters Flood 
     Insurance Reform Act of 2012, (Public Law 112-141, 126 Stat. 
     916), $100,000,000, and such additional sums as may be 
     provided by State and local governments or other political 
     subdivisions for cost-shared mapping activities under section 
     1360(f)(2) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 4101(f)(2)), to remain 
     available until expended.

                     national flood insurance fund

       For activities under the National Flood Insurance Act of 
     1968 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Flood Disaster Protection 
     Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Biggert-Waters 
     Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 (subtitle A of title II of 
     division F of Public Law 112-141; 126 Stat. 916), and the 
     Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 (Public 
     Law 113-89; 128 Stat. 1020), $179,294,000, which shall remain 
     available until September 30, 2016, and shall be derived from 
     offsetting amounts collected under section 1308(d) of the 
     National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4015(d)); 
     which is available for salaries and expenses associated with 
     flood mitigation and flood insurance operations; and 
     floodplain management and additional amounts for flood 
     mapping:  Provided, That of such amount, $23,759,000 shall be 
     available for salaries and expenses associated with flood 
     mitigation and flood insurance operations and $155,535,000 
     shall be available for flood plain management and flood 
     mapping:  Provided further, That any additional fees 
     collected pursuant to section 1308(d) of the National Flood 
     Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4015(d)) shall be credited 
     as an offsetting collection to this account, to be available 
     for flood plain management and flood mapping:  Provided 
     further, That in fiscal year 2015, no funds shall be 
     available from the National Flood Insurance Fund under 
     section 1310 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 
     U.S.C. 4017) in excess of:
       (1) $136,000,000 for operating expenses;
       (2) $1,139,000,000 for commissions and taxes of agents;
       (3) such sums as are necessary for interest on Treasury 
     borrowings; and
       (4) $150,000,000, which shall remain available until 
     expended, for flood mitigation actions and for flood 
     mitigation assistance

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     under section 1366 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 
     1968 (42 U.S.C. 4104c), notwithstanding sections 1366(e) and 
     1310(a)(7) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 4104c(e), 4017):

       Provided further, That the amounts collected under section 
     102 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 
     4012a) and section 1366(e) of the National Flood Insurance 
     Act of 1968 shall be deposited in the National Flood 
     Insurance Fund to supplement other amounts specified as 
     available for section 1366 of the National Flood Insurance 
     Act of 1968, notwithstanding section 102(f)(8), section 
     1366(e), and paragraphs (1) through (3) of section 1367(b) of 
     such Act (42 U.S.C. 4012a(f)(8), 4104c(e), 4104d(b)(1)-(3)):  
     Provided further, That total administrative costs shall not 
     exceed 4 percent of the total appropriation:  Provided 
     further, That $5,000,000 is available to carry out section 24 
     of the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 
     (42 U.S.C. 4033).

                  national predisaster mitigation fund

       For the predisaster mitigation grant program under section 
     203 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
     Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5133), $25,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended.

                       emergency food and shelter

       To carry out the emergency food and shelter program 
     pursuant to title III of the McKinney-Vento Homeless 
     Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11331 et seq.), $120,000,000, to 
     remain available until expended:  Provided, That total 
     administrative costs shall not exceed 3.5 percent of the 
     total amount made available under this heading.

                                TITLE IV

             RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING, AND SERVICES

           United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

       For necessary expenses for citizenship and immigration 
     services, $124,435,000 for the E-Verify Program, as described 
     in section 403(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and 
     Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1324a note), 
     to assist United States employers with maintaining a legal 
     workforce:  Provided, That, notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, funds otherwise made available to United 
     States Citizenship and Immigration Services may be used to 
     acquire, operate, equip, and dispose of up to 5 vehicles, for 
     replacement only, for areas where the Administrator of 
     General Services does not provide vehicles for lease:  
     Provided further, That the Director of United States 
     Citizenship and Immigration Services may authorize employees 
     who are assigned to those areas to use such vehicles to 
     travel between the employees' residences and places of 
     employment.

                Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforcement 
     Training Center, including materials and support costs of 
     Federal law enforcement basic training; the purchase of not 
     to exceed 117 vehicles for police-type use and hire of 
     passenger motor vehicles; expenses for student athletic and 
     related activities; the conduct of and participation in 
     firearms matches and presentation of awards; public awareness 
     and enhancement of community support of law enforcement 
     training; room and board for student interns; a flat monthly 
     reimbursement to employees authorized to use personal mobile 
     phones for official duties; and services as authorized by 
     section 3109 of title 5, United States Code; $230,497,000; of 
     which up to $54,154,000 shall remain available until 
     September 30, 2016, for materials and support costs of 
     Federal law enforcement basic training; of which $300,000 
     shall remain available until expended to be distributed to 
     Federal law enforcement agencies for expenses incurred 
     participating in training accreditation; and of which not to 
     exceed $7,180 shall be for official reception and 
     representation expenses:  Provided, That the Center is 
     authorized to obligate funds in anticipation of 
     reimbursements from agencies receiving training sponsored by 
     the Center, except that total obligations at the end of the 
     fiscal year shall not exceed total budgetary resources 
     available at the end of the fiscal year:  Provided further, 
     That section 1202(a) of Public Law 107-206 (42 U.S.C. 3771 
     note), as amended under this heading in division F of Public 
     Law 113-76, is further amended by striking ``December 31, 
     2016'' and inserting ``December 31, 2017'':  Provided 
     further, That the Director of the Federal Law Enforcement 
     Training Center shall schedule basic or advanced law 
     enforcement training, or both, at all four training 
     facilities under the control of the Federal Law Enforcement 
     Training Center to ensure that such training facilities are 
     operated at the highest capacity throughout the fiscal year:  
     Provided further, That the Federal Law Enforcement Training 
     Accreditation Board, including representatives from the 
     Federal law enforcement community and non-Federal 
     accreditation experts involved in law enforcement training, 
     shall lead the Federal law enforcement training accreditation 
     process to continue the implementation of measuring and 
     assessing the quality and effectiveness of Federal law 
     enforcement training programs, facilities, and instructors.

     acquisitions, construction, improvements, and related expenses

       For acquisition of necessary additional real property and 
     facilities, construction, and ongoing maintenance, facility 
     improvements, and related expenses of the Federal Law 
     Enforcement Training Center, $27,841,000, to remain available 
     until September 30, 2019:  Provided, That the Center is 
     authorized to accept reimbursement to this appropriation from 
     government agencies requesting the construction of special 
     use facilities.

                         Science and Technology

                     management and administration

       For salaries and expenses of the Office of the Under 
     Secretary for Science and Technology and for management and 
     administration of programs and activities, as authorized by 
     title III of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 181 
     et seq.), $129,993,000:  Provided, That not to exceed $7,650 
     shall be for official reception and representation expenses.

           research, development, acquisition, and operations

       For necessary expenses for science and technology research, 
     including advanced research projects, development, test and 
     evaluation, acquisition, and operations as authorized by 
     title III of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 181 
     et seq.), and the purchase or lease of not to exceed 5 
     vehicles, $973,915,000; of which $538,926,000 shall remain 
     available until September 30, 2017; and of which $434,989,000 
     shall remain available until September 30, 2019, solely for 
     operation and construction of laboratory facilities:  
     Provided, That of the funds provided for the operation and 
     construction of laboratory facilities under this heading, 
     $300,000,000 shall be for construction of the National Bio- 
     and Agro-defense Facility.

                   Domestic Nuclear Detection Office

                     management and administration

       For salaries and expenses of the Domestic Nuclear Detection 
     Office, as authorized by title XIX of the Homeland Security 
     Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 591 et seq.), for management and 
     administration of programs and activities, $37,339,000:  
     Provided, That not to exceed $2,250 shall be for official 
     reception and representation expenses.

                 research, development, and operations

       For necessary expenses for radiological and nuclear 
     research, development, testing, evaluation, and operations, 
     $197,900,000, to remain available until September 30, 2017.

                          systems acquisition

       For necessary expenses for the Domestic Nuclear Detection 
     Office acquisition and deployment of radiological detection 
     systems in accordance with the global nuclear detection 
     architecture, $72,603,000, to remain available until 
     September 30, 2017.

                                TITLE V

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

                    (including rescissions of funds)

       Sec. 501.  No part of any appropriation contained in this 
     Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
     fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
       Sec. 502.  Subject to the requirements of section 503 of 
     this Act, the unexpended balances of prior appropriations 
     provided for activities in this Act may be transferred to 
     appropriation accounts for such activities established 
     pursuant to this Act, may be merged with funds in the 
     applicable established accounts, and thereafter may be 
     accounted for as one fund for the same time period as 
     originally enacted.
       Sec. 503. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, 
     provided by previous appropriations Acts to the agencies in 
     or transferred to the Department of Homeland Security that 
     remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 
     2015, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the 
     United States derived by the collection of fees available to 
     the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for 
     obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds 
     that:
       (1) creates a new program, project, or activity;
       (2) eliminates a program, project, office, or activity;
       (3) increases funds for any program, project, or activity 
     for which funds have been denied or restricted by the 
     Congress;
       (4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific activity 
     by either of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 
     or the House of Representatives for a different purpose; or
       (5) contracts out any function or activity for which 
     funding levels were requested for Federal full-time 
     equivalents in the object classification tables contained in 
     the fiscal year 2015 Budget Appendix for the Department of 
     Homeland Security, as modified by the report accompanying 
     this Act, unless the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     Senate and the House of Representatives are notified 15 days 
     in advance of such reprogramming of funds.
       (b) None of the funds provided by this Act, provided by 
     previous appropriations Acts to the agencies in or 
     transferred to the Department of Homeland Security that 
     remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 
     2015, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the 
     United States derived by the collection of fees or proceeds 
     available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 
     available for obligation or expenditure for programs, 
     projects, or activities through a reprogramming of funds in 
     excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, that:
       (1) augments existing programs, projects, or activities;
       (2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any existing program, 
     project, or activity;

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       (3) reduces by 10 percent the numbers of personnel approved 
     by the Congress; or
       (4) results from any general savings from a reduction in 
     personnel that would result in a change in existing programs, 
     projects, or activities as approved by the Congress, unless 
     the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House 
     of Representatives are notified 15 days in advance of such 
     reprogramming of funds.
       (c) Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 
     available for the current fiscal year for the Department of 
     Homeland Security by this Act or provided by previous 
     appropriations Acts may be transferred between such 
     appropriations, but no such appropriation, except as 
     otherwise specifically provided, shall be increased by more 
     than 10 percent by such transfers:  Provided, That any 
     transfer under this section shall be treated as a 
     reprogramming of funds under subsection (b) and shall not be 
     available for obligation unless the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives 
     are notified 15 days in advance of such transfer.
       (d) Notwithstanding subsections (a), (b), and (c) of this 
     section, no funds shall be reprogrammed within or transferred 
     between appropriations based upon an initial notification 
     provided after June 30, except in extraordinary circumstances 
     that imminently threaten the safety of human life or the 
     protection of property.
       (e) The notification thresholds and procedures set forth in 
     this section shall apply to any use of deobligated balances 
     of funds provided in previous Department of Homeland Security 
     Appropriations Acts.
       Sec. 504.  The Department of Homeland Security Working 
     Capital Fund, established pursuant to section 403 of Public 
     Law 103-356 (31 U.S.C. 501 note), shall continue operations 
     as a permanent working capital fund for fiscal year 2015:  
     Provided, That none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available to the Department of Homeland Security may be 
     used to make payments to the Working Capital Fund, except for 
     the activities and amounts allowed in the President's fiscal 
     year 2015 budget:  Provided further, That funds provided to 
     the Working Capital Fund shall be available for obligation 
     until expended to carry out the purposes of the Working 
     Capital Fund:  Provided further, That all departmental 
     components shall be charged only for direct usage of each 
     Working Capital Fund service:  Provided further, That funds 
     provided to the Working Capital Fund shall be used only for 
     purposes consistent with the contributing component:  
     Provided further, That the Working Capital Fund shall be paid 
     in advance or reimbursed at rates which will return the full 
     cost of each service:  Provided further, That the Committees 
     on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives 
     shall be notified of any activity added to or removed from 
     the fund:  Provided further, That the Chief Financial Officer 
     of the Department of Homeland Security shall submit a 
     quarterly execution report with activity level detail, not 
     later than 30 days after the end of each quarter.
       Sec. 505.  Except as otherwise specifically provided by 
     law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances 
     remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2015, as 
     recorded in the financial records at the time of a 
     reprogramming request, but not later than June 30, 2016, from 
     appropriations for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 2015 
     in this Act shall remain available through September 30, 
     2016, in the account and for the purposes for which the 
     appropriations were provided:  Provided, That prior to the 
     obligation of such funds, a request shall be submitted to the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 
     Representatives for approval in accordance with section 503 
     of this Act.
       Sec. 506.  Funds made available by this Act for 
     intelligence activities are deemed to be specifically 
     authorized by the Congress for purposes of section 504 of the 
     National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) during fiscal 
     year 2015 until the enactment of an Act authorizing 
     intelligence activities for fiscal year 2015.
       Sec. 507. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and 
     (c), none of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
     to--
       (1) make or award a grant allocation, grant, contract, 
     other transaction agreement, or task or delivery order on a 
     Department of Homeland Security multiple award contract, or 
     to issue a letter of intent totaling in excess of $1,000,000;
       (2) award a task or delivery order requiring an obligation 
     of funds in an amount greater than $10,000,000 from multi-
     year Department of Homeland Security funds;
       (3) make a sole-source grant award; or
       (4) announce publicly the intention to make or award items 
     under paragraph (1), (2), or (3) including a contract covered 
     by the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
       (b) The Secretary of Homeland Security may waive the 
     prohibition under subsection (a) if the Secretary notifies 
     the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House 
     of Representatives at least 3 full business days in advance 
     of making an award or issuing a letter as described in that 
     subsection.
       (c) If the Secretary of Homeland Security determines that 
     compliance with this section would pose a substantial risk to 
     human life, health, or safety, an award may be made without 
     notification, and the Secretary shall notify the Committees 
     on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 
     Representatives not later than 5 full business days after 
     such an award is made or letter issued.
       (d) A notification under this section--
       (1) may not involve funds that are not available for 
     obligation; and
       (2) shall include the amount of the award; the fiscal year 
     for which the funds for the award were appropriated; the type 
     of contract; and the account from which the funds are being 
     drawn.
       (e) The Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management 
     Agency shall brief the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     Senate and the House of Representatives 5 full business days 
     in advance of announcing publicly the intention of making an 
     award under ``State and Local Programs''.
       Sec. 508.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 
     agency shall purchase, construct, or lease any additional 
     facilities, except within or contiguous to existing 
     locations, to be used for the purpose of conducting Federal 
     law enforcement training without the advance approval of the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 
     Representatives, except that the Federal Law Enforcement 
     Training Center is authorized to obtain the temporary use of 
     additional facilities by lease, contract, or other agreement 
     for training that cannot be accommodated in existing Center 
     facilities.
       Sec. 509.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used for expenses for any 
     construction, repair, alteration, or acquisition project for 
     which a prospectus otherwise required under chapter 33 of 
     title 40, United States Code, has not been approved, except 
     that necessary funds may be expended for each project for 
     required expenses for the development of a proposed 
     prospectus.
       Sec. 510. (a) Sections 520, 522, and 530 of the Department 
     of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2008 (division E of 
     Public Law 110-161; 121 Stat. 2073 and 2074) shall apply with 
     respect to funds made available in this Act in the same 
     manner as such sections applied to funds made available in 
     that Act.
       (b) The third proviso of section 537 of the Department of 
     Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2006 (6 U.S.C. 114), 
     shall not apply with respect to funds made available in this 
     Act.
       Sec. 511.  None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used in contravention of the applicable provisions of the 
     Buy American Act. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the 
     term ``Buy American Act'' means chapter 83 of title 41, 
     United States Code.
       Sec. 512.  None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to amend the oath of allegiance required by section 
     337 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1448).
       Sec. 513.  Not later than 30 days after the last day of 
     each month, the Chief Financial Officer of the Department of 
     Homeland Security shall submit to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives 
     a monthly budget and staffing report for that month that 
     includes total obligations of the Department for that month 
     for the fiscal year at the appropriation and program, 
     project, and activity levels, by the source year of the 
     appropriation. Total obligations for staffing shall also be 
     provided by subcategory of on-board and funded full-time 
     equivalent staffing levels, respectively, and the report 
     shall specify the number of, and total obligations for, 
     contract employees for each office of the Department.
       Sec. 514.  Except as provided in section 44945 of title 49, 
     United States Code, funds appropriated or transferred to 
     Transportation Security Administration ``Aviation Security'', 
     ``Administration'', and ``Transportation Security Support'' 
     for fiscal years 2004 and 2005 that are recovered or 
     deobligated shall be available only for the procurement or 
     installation of explosives detection systems, air cargo, 
     baggage, and checkpoint screening systems, subject to 
     notification:  Provided, That semiannual reports shall be 
     submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 
     and the House of Representatives on any funds that are 
     recovered or deobligated.
       Sec. 515.  None of the funds appropriated by this Act may 
     be used to process or approve a competition under Office of 
     Management and Budget Circular A-76 for services provided by 
     employees (including employees serving on a temporary or term 
     basis) of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services 
     of the Department of Homeland Security who are known as 
     Immigration Information Officers, Contact Representatives, 
     Investigative Assistants, or Immigration Services Officers.
       Sec. 516.  Any funds appropriated to ``Coast Guard, 
     Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements'' for fiscal 
     years 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 for the 110-123 foot 
     patrol boat conversion that are recovered, collected, or 
     otherwise received as the result of negotiation, mediation, 
     or litigation, shall be available until expended for the Fast 
     Response Cutter program.
       Sec. 517.  The functions of the Federal Law Enforcement 
     Training Center instructor staff shall be classified as 
     inherently governmental for the purpose of the Federal 
     Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (31 U.S.C. 501 note).
       Sec. 518. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
     submit a report not later than October 15, 2015, to the 
     Office of Inspector General of the Department of Homeland 
     Security listing all grants and contracts awarded by any 
     means other than full and open competition during fiscal year 
     2015.
       (b) The Inspector General shall review the report required 
     by subsection (a) to assess Departmental compliance with 
     applicable laws and regulations and report the results of 
     that review to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 
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     Representatives not later than February 15, 2016.
       Sec. 519.  None of the funds provided by this or previous 
     appropriations Acts shall be used to fund any position 
     designated as a Principal Federal Official (or the successor 
     thereto) for any Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
     Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) declared 
     disasters or emergencies unless--
       (1) the responsibilities of the Principal Federal Official 
     do not include operational functions related to incident 
     management, including coordination of operations, and are 
     consistent with the requirements of section 509(c) and 
     sections 503(c)(3) and 503(c)(4)(A) of the Homeland Security 
     Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 319(c) and 313(c)(3) and 313(c)(4)(A)) 
     and section 302 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
     Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5143);
       (2) not later than 10 business days after the latter of the 
     date on which the Secretary of Homeland Security appoints the 
     Principal Federal Official and the date on which the 
     President issues a declaration under section 401 or section 
     501 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
     Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170 and 5191, respectively), the 
     Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a notification of 
     the appointment of the Principal Federal Official and a 
     description of the responsibilities of such Official and how 
     such responsibilities are consistent with paragraph (1) to 
     the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House 
     of Representatives, the Committee on Transportation and 
     Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, and the 
     Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of 
     the Senate; and
       (3) not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary shall provide a report specifying 
     timeframes and milestones regarding the update of operations, 
     planning and policy documents, and training and exercise 
     protocols, to ensure consistency with paragraph (1) of this 
     section.
       Sec. 520.  None of the funds provided or otherwise made 
     available in this Act shall be available to carry out section 
     872 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 452).
       Sec. 521.  Funds made available in this Act may be used to 
     alter operations within the Civil Engineering Program of the 
     Coast Guard nationwide, including civil engineering units, 
     facilities design and construction centers, maintenance and 
     logistics commands, and the Coast Guard Academy, except that 
     none of the funds provided in this Act may be used to reduce 
     operations within any Civil Engineering Unit unless 
     specifically authorized by a statute enacted after the date 
     of enactment of this Act.
       Sec. 522.  None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services 
     to grant an immigration benefit unless the results of 
     background checks required by law to be completed prior to 
     the granting of the benefit have been received by United 
     States Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the results 
     do not preclude the granting of the benefit.
       Sec. 523.  Section 831 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 
     (6 U.S.C. 391) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``Until September 30, 
     2014,'' and inserting ``Until September 30, 2015,''; and
       (2) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ``September 30, 
     2014,'' and inserting ``September 30, 2015,''.
       Sec. 524.  The Secretary of Homeland Security shall require 
     that all contracts of the Department of Homeland Security 
     that provide award fees link such fees to successful 
     acquisition outcomes (which outcomes shall be specified in 
     terms of cost, schedule, and performance).
       Sec. 525.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
     of the funds provided in this or any other Act shall be used 
     to approve a waiver of the navigation and vessel-inspection 
     laws pursuant to 46 U.S.C. 501(b) for the transportation of 
     crude oil distributed from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve 
     until the Secretary of Homeland Security, after consultation 
     with the Secretaries of the Departments of Energy and 
     Transportation and representatives from the United States 
     flag maritime industry, takes adequate measures to ensure the 
     use of United States flag vessels:  Provided, That the 
     Secretary shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of 
     the Senate and the House of Representatives, the Committee on 
     Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, and the 
     Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House 
     of Representatives within 2 business days of any request for 
     waivers of navigation and vessel-inspection laws pursuant to 
     46 U.S.C. 501(b).
       Sec. 526.  None of the funds made available in this Act for 
     U.S. Customs and Border Protection may be used to prevent an 
     individual not in the business of importing a prescription 
     drug (within the meaning of section 801(g) of the Federal 
     Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) from importing a prescription 
     drug from Canada that complies with the Federal Food, Drug, 
     and Cosmetic Act:  Provided, That this section shall apply 
     only to individuals transporting on their person a personal-
     use quantity of the prescription drug, not to exceed a 90-day 
     supply:  Provided further, That the prescription drug may not 
     be--
       (1) a controlled substance, as defined in section 102 of 
     the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802); or
       (2) a biological product, as defined in section 351 of the 
     Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262).
       Sec. 527.  None of the funds in this Act shall be used to 
     reduce the United States Coast Guard's Operations Systems 
     Center mission or its government-employed or contract staff 
     levels.
       Sec. 528.  The Secretary of Homeland Security, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall notify 
     the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House 
     of Representatives of any proposed transfers of funds 
     available under section 9703.1(g)(4)(B) of title 31, United 
     States Code (as added by Public Law 102-393) from the 
     Department of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund to any agency 
     within the Department of Homeland Security:  Provided, That 
     none of the funds identified for such a transfer may be 
     obligated until the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     Senate and the House of Representatives approve the proposed 
     transfers.
       Sec. 529.  None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used for planning, testing, piloting, or developing a 
     national identification card.
       Sec. 530.  None of the funds appropriated by this Act may 
     be used to conduct, or to implement the results of, a 
     competition under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-
     76 for activities performed with respect to the Coast Guard 
     National Vessel Documentation Center.
       Sec. 531. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     Act, except as provided in subsection (b), and 30 days after 
     the date on which the President determines whether to declare 
     a major disaster because of an event and any appeal is 
     completed, the Administrator shall publish on the Web site of 
     the Federal Emergency Management Agency a report regarding 
     that decision that shall summarize damage assessment 
     information used to determine whether to declare a major 
     disaster.
       (b) The Administrator may redact from a report under 
     subsection (a) any data that the Administrator determines 
     would compromise national security.
       (c) In this section--
       (1) the term ``Administrator'' means the Administrator of 
     the Federal Emergency Management Agency; and
       (2) the term ``major disaster'' has the meaning given that 
     term in section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
     and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122).
       Sec. 532.  Any official that is required by this Act to 
     report or to certify to the Committees on Appropriations of 
     the Senate and the House of Representatives may not delegate 
     such authority to perform that act unless specifically 
     authorized herein.
       Sec. 533.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available in this or any other Act may be used to transfer, 
     release, or assist in the transfer or release to or within 
     the United States, its territories, or possessions Khalid 
     Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who--
       (1) is not a United States citizen or a member of the Armed 
     Forces of the United States; and
       (2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, at the United 
     States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the Department 
     of Defense.
       Sec. 534.  None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used for first-class travel by the employees of agencies 
     funded by this Act in contravention of sections 301-10.122 
     through 301-10.124 of title 41, Code of Federal Regulations.
       Sec. 535.  None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to employ workers described in section 274A(h)(3) of 
     the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324a(h)(3)).
       Sec. 536. (a) Any company that collects or retains personal 
     information directly from any individual who participates in 
     the Registered Traveler or successor program of the 
     Transportation Security Administration shall hereafter 
     safeguard and dispose of such information in accordance with 
     the requirements in--
       (1) the National Institute for Standards and Technology 
     Special Publication 800-30, entitled ``Risk Management Guide 
     for Information Technology Systems'';
       (2) the National Institute for Standards and Technology 
     Special Publication 800-53, Revision 3, entitled 
     ``Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information 
     Systems and Organizations''; and
       (3) any supplemental standards established by the 
     Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration 
     (referred to in this section as the ``Administrator'').
       (b) The airport authority or air carrier operator that 
     sponsors the company under the Registered Traveler program 
     shall hereafter be known as the ``Sponsoring Entity''.
       (c) The Administrator shall hereafter require any company 
     covered by subsection (a) to provide, not later than 30 days 
     after the date of enactment of this Act, to the Sponsoring 
     Entity written certification that the procedures used by the 
     company to safeguard and dispose of information are in 
     compliance with the requirements under subsection (a). Such 
     certification shall include a description of the procedures 
     used by the company to comply with such requirements.
       Sec. 537.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
     none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by 
     this Act may be used to pay award or incentive fees for 
     contractor performance that has been judged to be below 
     satisfactory performance or performance that does not meet 
     the basic requirements of a contract.
       Sec. 538.  In developing any process to screen aviation 
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     transportation or national security purposes, the Secretary 
     of Homeland Security shall ensure that all such processes 
     take into consideration such passengers' and crews' privacy 
     and civil liberties consistent with applicable laws, 
     regulations, and guidance.
       Sec. 539. (a) Notwithstanding section 1356(n) of title 8, 
     United States Code, of the funds deposited into the 
     Immigration Examinations Fee Account, $10,000,000 may be 
     allocated by United States Citizenship and Immigration 
     Services in fiscal year 2015 for the purpose of providing an 
     immigrant integration grants program.
       (b) None of the funds made available to United States 
     Citizenship and Immigration Services for grants for immigrant 
     integration may be used to provide services to aliens who 
     have not been lawfully admitted for permanent residence.
       Sec. 540.  For an additional amount for the ``Office of the 
     Under Secretary for Management'', $48,600,000, to remain 
     available until expended, for necessary expenses to plan, 
     acquire, design, construct, renovate, remediate, equip, 
     furnish, improve infrastructure, and occupy buildings and 
     facilities for the department headquarters consolidation 
     project and associated mission support consolidation:  
     Provided, That the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 
     and the House of Representatives shall receive an expenditure 
     plan not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of 
     the Act detailing the allocation of these funds.
       Sec. 541.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used by the Department of 
     Homeland Security to enter into any Federal contract unless 
     such contract is entered into in accordance with the 
     requirements of subtitle I of title 41, United States Code, 
     or chapter 137 of title 10, United States Code, and the 
     Federal Acquisition Regulation, unless such contract is 
     otherwise authorized by statute to be entered into without 
     regard to the above referenced statutes.
       Sec. 542. (a) For an additional amount for financial 
     systems modernization, $34,072,000 to remain available until 
     September 30, 2016.
       (b) Funds made available in subsection (a) for financial 
     systems modernization may be transferred by the Secretary of 
     Homeland Security between appropriations for the same 
     purpose, notwithstanding section 503 of this Act.
       (c) No transfer described in subsection (b) shall occur 
     until 15 days after the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     Senate and the House of Representatives are notified of such 
     transfer.
       Sec. 543.  Notwithstanding the 10 percent limitation 
     contained in section 503(c) of this Act, the Secretary of 
     Homeland Security may transfer to the fund established by 8 
     U.S.C. 1101 note, up to $20,000,000 from appropriations 
     available to the Department of Homeland Security:  Provided, 
     That the Secretary shall notify the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives 
     5 days in advance of such transfer.
       Sec. 544.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if 
     the Secretary of Homeland Security determines that specific 
     U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service Processing 
     Centers or other U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 
     owned detention facilities no longer meet the mission need, 
     the Secretary is authorized to dispose of individual Service 
     Processing Centers or other U.S. Immigration and Customs 
     Enforcement owned detention facilities by directing the 
     Administrator of General Services to sell all real and 
     related personal property which support Service Processing 
     Centers or other U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 
     owned detention facilities, subject to such terms and 
     conditions as necessary to protect Government interests and 
     meet program requirements:  Provided, That the proceeds, net 
     of the costs of sale incurred by the General Services 
     Administration and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 
     shall be deposited as offsetting collections into a separate 
     account that shall be available, subject to appropriation, 
     until expended for other real property capital asset needs of 
     existing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement assets, 
     excluding daily operations and maintenance costs, as the 
     Secretary deems appropriate:  Provided further, That any sale 
     or collocation of federally owned detention facilities shall 
     not result in the maintenance of fewer than 34,000 detention 
     beds:  Provided further, That the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives 
     shall be notified 15 days prior to the announcement of any 
     proposed sale or collocation.
       Sec. 545.  The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border 
     Protection and the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security 
     for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall, with 
     respect to fiscal years 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, submit to 
     the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House 
     of Representatives, at the time that the President's budget 
     proposal for fiscal year 2016 is submitted pursuant to the 
     requirements of section 1105(a) of title 31, United States 
     Code, the information required in the multi-year investment 
     and management plans required, respectively, under the 
     headings ``U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Salaries and 
     Expenses'' under title II of division D of the Consolidated 
     Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112-74); ``U.S. Customs 
     and Border Protection, Border Security Fencing, 
     Infrastructure, and Technology'' under such title; and 
     section 568 of such Act.
       Sec. 546.  The Secretary of Homeland Security shall ensure 
     enforcement of all immigration laws (as defined in section 
     101(a)(17) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
     1101(a)(17))).
       Sec. 547. (a) Of the amounts made available by this Act for 
     ``National Protection and Programs Directorate, 
     Infrastructure Protection and Information Security'', 
     $140,525,000 for the Federal Network Security program, 
     project, and activity shall be used to deploy on Federal 
     systems technology to improve the information security of 
     agency information systems covered by section 3543(a) of 
     title 44, United States Code:  Provided, That funds made 
     available under this section shall be used to assist and 
     support Government-wide and agency-specific efforts to 
     provide adequate, risk-based, and cost-effective 
     cybersecurity to address escalating and rapidly evolving 
     threats to information security, including the acquisition 
     and operation of a continuous monitoring and diagnostics 
     program, in collaboration with departments and agencies, that 
     includes equipment, software, and Department of Homeland 
     Security supplied services:  Provided further, That 
     continuous monitoring and diagnostics software procured by 
     the funds made available by this section shall not transmit 
     to the Department of Homeland Security any personally 
     identifiable information or content of network communications 
     of other agencies' users:  Provided further, That such 
     software shall be installed, maintained, and operated in 
     accordance with all applicable privacy laws and agency-
     specific policies regarding network content.
       (b) Funds made available under this section may not be used 
     to supplant funds provided for any such system within an 
     agency budget.
       (c) Not later than July 1, 2015, the heads of all Federal 
     agencies shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of 
     the Senate and the House of Representatives expenditure plans 
     for necessary cybersecurity improvements to address known 
     vulnerabilities to information systems described in 
     subsection (a).
       (d) Not later than October 1, 2015, and semiannually 
     thereafter, the head of each Federal agency shall submit to 
     the Director of the Office of Management and Budget a report 
     on the execution of the expenditure plan for that agency 
     required by subsection (c):  Provided, That the Director of 
     the Office of Management and Budget shall summarize such 
     execution reports and annually submit such summaries to 
     Congress in conjunction with the annual progress report on 
     implementation of the E-Government Act of 2002 (Public Law 
     107-347), as required by section 3606 of title 44, United 
     States Code.
       (e) This section shall not apply to the legislative and 
     judicial branches of the Federal Government and shall apply 
     to all Federal agencies within the executive branch except 
     for the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence 
     Agency, and the Office of the Director of National 
     Intelligence.
       Sec. 548. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act 
     may be used to maintain or establish a computer network 
     unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, and 
     exchanging of pornography.
       (b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of funds 
     necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 
     enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out criminal 
     investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities.
       Sec. 549.  None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used by a Federal law enforcement officer to facilitate 
     the transfer of an operable firearm to an individual if the 
     Federal law enforcement officer knows or suspects that the 
     individual is an agent of a drug cartel unless law 
     enforcement personnel of the United States continuously 
     monitor or control the firearm at all times.
       Sec. 550.  None of the funds provided in this or any other 
     Act may be obligated to implement the National Preparedness 
     Grant Program or any other successor grant programs unless 
     explicitly authorized by Congress.
       Sec. 551.  None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to provide funding for the position of Public 
     Advocate, or a successor position, within U.S. Immigration 
     and Customs Enforcement.
       Sec. 552. (a) Section 559 of division F of Public Law 113-
     76 is amended as follows:
       (1) Subsection (f)(2)(B) is amended by adding at the end: 
     ``Such transfer shall not be required for personal property, 
     including furniture, fixtures, and equipment.''; and
       (2) Subsection (e)(3)(b) is amended by inserting after 
     ``payment of overtime'' the following: ``and the salaries, 
     training and benefits of individuals employed by U.S. Customs 
     and Border Protection to support U.S. Customs and Border 
     Protection officers in performing law enforcement functions 
     at ports of entry, including primary and secondary processing 
     of passengers''.
       (b) Section 560(g) of division D of Public Law 113-6 is 
     amended by inserting after ``payment of overtime'' the 
     following: ``and the salaries, training and benefits of 
     individuals employed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to 
     support U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in 
     performing law enforcement functions at ports of entry, 
     including primary and secondary processing of passengers''.
       (c) The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
     may modify a reimbursable fee agreement in effect as of the 
     date of enactment of this Act to include costs specified in 
     this section.
       Sec. 553.  None of the funds made available in this Act may 
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     to or attendance of more than 50 employees of a single 
     component of the Department of Homeland Security, who are 
     stationed in the United States, at a single international 
     conference unless the Secretary of Homeland Security, or a 
     designee, determines that such attendance is in the national 
     interest and notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     Senate and the House of Representatives within at least 10 
     days of that determination and the basis for that 
     determination:  Provided, That for purposes of this section 
     the term ``international conference'' shall mean a conference 
     occurring outside of the United States attended by 
     representatives of the United States Government and of 
     foreign governments, international organizations, or 
     nongovernmental organizations.
       Sec. 554.  None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to reimburse any Federal department or agency for its 
     participation in a National Special Security Event.
       Sec. 555.  With the exception of countries with 
     preclearance facilities in service prior to 2013, none of the 
     funds made available in this Act may be used for new U.S. 
     Customs and Border Protection air preclearance agreements 
     entering into force after February 1, 2014, unless--
       (1) the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation 
     with the Secretary of State, has certified to Congress that 
     air preclearance operations at the airport provide a homeland 
     or national security benefit to the United States;
       (2) United States passenger air carriers are not precluded 
     from operating at existing preclearance locations; and
       (3) a United States passenger air carrier is operating at 
     all airports contemplated for establishment of new air 
     preclearance operations.
       Sec. 556.  None of the funds made available by this or any 
     other Act may be used by the Administrator of the 
     Transportation Security Administration to implement, 
     administer, or enforce, in abrogation of the responsibility 
     described in section 44903(n)(1) of title 49, United States 
     Code, any requirement that airport operators provide airport-
     financed staffing to monitor exit points from the sterile 
     area of any airport at which the Transportation Security 
     Administration provided such monitoring as of December 1, 
     2013.
       Sec. 557.  In making grants under the heading ``Firefighter 
     Assistance Grants'', the Secretary may grant waivers from the 
     requirements in subsections (a)(1)(A), (a)(1)(B), (a)(1)(E), 
     (c)(1), (c)(2), and (c)(4) of section 34 of the Federal Fire 
     Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229a).
       Sec. 558. (a) In General.--Beginning on the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall not--
       (1) establish, collect, or otherwise impose any new border 
     crossing fee on individuals crossing the Southern border or 
     the Northern border at a land port of entry; or
       (2) conduct any study relating to the imposition of a 
     border crossing fee.
       (b) Border Crossing Fee Defined.--In this section, the term 
     ``border crossing fee'' means a fee that every pedestrian, 
     cyclist, and driver and passenger of a private motor vehicle 
     is required to pay for the privilege of crossing the Southern 
     border or the Northern border at a land port of entry.
       Sec. 559.  The administrative law judge annuitants 
     participating in the Senior Administrative Law Judge Program 
     managed by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management 
     under section 3323 of title 5, United States Code, shall be 
     available on a temporary reemployment basis to conduct 
     arbitrations of disputes arising from delivery of assistance 
     under the Federal Emergency Management Agency Public 
     Assistance Program.
       Sec. 560.  As authorized by section 601(b) of the United 
     States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act 
     (Public Law 112-42) fees collected from passengers arriving 
     from Canada, Mexico, or an adjacent island pursuant to 
     section 13031(a)(5) of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget 
     Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 U.S.C. 58c(a)(5)) shall be 
     available until expended.
       Sec. 561.  None of the funds appropriated by this or any 
     other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of 
     personnel who prepare or submit appropriations language as 
     part of the President's budget submission to the Congress of 
     the United States for programs under the jurisdiction of the 
     Appropriations Subcommittees on the Department of Homeland 
     Security that assumes revenues or reflects a reduction from 
     the previous year due to user fees proposals that have not 
     been enacted into law prior to the submission of the budget 
     unless such budget submission identifies which additional 
     spending reductions should occur in the event the user fees 
     proposals are not enacted prior to the date of the convening 
     of a committee of conference for the fiscal year 2016 
     appropriations Act.
       Sec. 562. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
     submit to the Congress, not later than 180 days after the 
     date of enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, 
     beginning at the time the President's budget proposal for 
     fiscal year 2017 is submitted pursuant to section 1105(a) of 
     title 31, United States Code, a comprehensive report on the 
     purchase and usage of weapons, subdivided by weapon type. The 
     report shall include--
       (1) the quantity of weapons in inventory at the end of the 
     preceding calendar year, and the amount of weapons, 
     subdivided by weapon type, included in the budget request for 
     each relevant component or agency in the Department of 
     Homeland Security;
       (2) a description of how such quantity and purchase aligns 
     to each component or agency's mission requirements for 
     certification, qualification, training, and operations; and
       (3) details on all contracting practices applied by the 
     Department of Homeland Security, including comparative 
     details regarding other contracting options with respect to 
     cost and availability.
       (b) The reports required by subsection (a) shall be 
     submitted in an appropriate format in order to ensure the 
     safety of law enforcement personnel.
       Sec. 563.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
     shall be used for the environmental remediation of the Coast 
     Guard's LORAN support in Wildwood/Lower Township, New Jersey.
       Sec. 564.  None of the funds made available to the 
     Department of Homeland Security by this or any other Act may 
     be obligated for any structural pay reform that affects more 
     than 100 full-time equivalent employee positions or costs 
     more than $5,000,000 in a single year before the end of the 
     30-day period beginning on the date on which the Secretary of 
     Homeland Security submits to Congress a notification that 
     includes--
       (1) the number of full-time equivalent employee positions 
     affected by such change;
       (2) funding required for such change for the current year 
     and through the Future Years Homeland Security Program;
       (3) justification for such change; and
       (4) an analysis of compensation alternatives to such change 
     that were considered by the Department.
       Sec. 565. (a) Any agency receiving funds made available in 
     this Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), post on 
     the public Web site of that agency any report required to be 
     submitted by the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 
     and the House of Representatives in this Act, upon the 
     determination by the head of the agency that it shall serve 
     the national interest.
       (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if--
       (1) the public posting of the report compromises homeland 
     or national security; or
       (2) the report contains proprietary information.
       (c) The head of the agency posting such report shall do so 
     only after such report has been made available to the 
     requesting Committee or Committees of Congress for no less 
     than 45 days except as otherwise specified in law.
       Sec. 566.  Section 605 of division E of Public Law 110-161 
     (6 U.S.C. 1404) is hereby repealed.
       Sec. 567.  The Administrator of the Federal Emergency 
     Management Agency may transfer up to $95,000,000 in 
     unobligated balances made available for the appropriations 
     account for ``Federal Emergency Management Agency, Disaster 
     Assistance Direct Loan Program'' under section 2(a) of the 
     Community Disaster Loan Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-88; 119 
     Stat. 2061) or under chapter 5 of title I of division B of 
     the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and 
     Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009 (Public Law (110-329; 122 
     Stat. 3592) to the appropriations account for ``Federal 
     Emergency Management Agency, Disaster Relief Fund''. Amounts 
     transferred to such account under this section shall be 
     available for any authorized purpose of such account.
       Sec. 568.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     Gerardo Ismael Hernandez, a Transportation Security Officer 
     employed by the Transportation Security Administration who 
     died as the direct result of an injury sustained in the line 
     of duty on November 1, 2013, at the Los Angeles International 
     Airport, shall be deemed to have been a public safety officer 
     for the purposes of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Street 
     Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3711 et seq.).
       Sec. 569.  The Office of Management and Budget and the 
     Department of Homeland Security shall ensure the 
     congressional budget justifications accompanying the 
     President's budget proposal for the Department of Homeland 
     Security, submitted pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31, 
     United States Code, include estimates of the number of 
     unaccompanied alien children anticipated to be apprehended in 
     the budget year and the number of agent or officer hours 
     required to process, manage, and care for such children:  
     Provided, That such materials shall also include estimates of 
     all other associated costs for each relevant Departmental 
     component, including but not limited to personnel; equipment; 
     supplies; facilities; managerial, technical, and advisory 
     services; medical treatment; and all costs associated with 
     transporting such children from one Departmental component to 
     another or from a Departmental component to another Federal 
     agency.
       Sec. 570.  Notwithstanding section 404 or 420 of the Robert 
     T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
     U.S.C. 5170c and 5187), until September 30, 2015, the 
     President may provide hazard mitigation assistance in 
     accordance with such section 404 in any area in which 
     assistance was provided under such section 420.
       Sec. 571.  That without regard to the limitation as to time 
     and condition of section 503(d) of this Act, the Secretary 
     may propose to reprogram within and transfer funds into 
     ``U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Salaries and Expenses'' 
     and ``U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Salaries and 
     Expenses'' as necessary to ensure the care and transportation 
     of unaccompanied alien children.
       Sec. 572.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     grants awarded to States along

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     the Southwest Border of the United States under sections 2003 
     or 2004 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 604 
     and 605) using funds provided under the heading ``Federal 
     Emergency Management Agency, State and Local Programs'' in 
     division F of Public Law 113-76 or division D of Public Law 
     113-6 may be used by recipients or sub-recipients for costs, 
     or reimbursement of costs, related to providing humanitarian 
     relief to unaccompanied alien children and alien adults 
     accompanied by an alien minor where they are encountered 
     after entering the United States, provided that such costs 
     were incurred during the award period of performance.

                             (rescissions)

       Sec. 573.  Of the funds appropriated to the Department of 
     Homeland Security, the following funds are hereby rescinded 
     from the following accounts and programs in the specified 
     amounts:  Provided, That no amounts may be rescinded from 
     amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget 
     or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985 (Public Law 99-177):
       (1) $5,000,000 from unobligated prior year balances from 
     ``U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border Security, 
     Fencing, Infrastructure, and Technology'';
       (2) $8,000,000 from Public Law 113-76 under the heading 
     ``U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine 
     Operations'' in division F of such Act;
       (3) $10,000,000 from unobligated prior year balances from 
     ``U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Construction and 
     Facilities Management'';
       (4) $15,300,000 from ``Transportation Security 
     Administration, Aviation Security'' account 70x0550;
       (5) $187,000,000 from Public Law 113-76 under the heading 
     ``Transportation Security Administration, Aviation 
     Security'';
       (6) $2,550,000 from Public Law 112-10 under the heading 
     ``Coast Guard, Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements'';
       (7) $12,095,000 from Public Law 112-74 under the heading 
     ``Coast Guard, Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements'';
       (8) $16,349,000 from Public Law 113-6 under the heading 
     ``Coast Guard, Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements'';
       (9) $30,643,000 from Public Law 113-76 under the heading 
     ``Coast Guard, Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements'';
       (10) $24,000,000 from ``Federal Emergency Management 
     Agency, National Predisaster Mitigation Fund'' account 
     70x0716; and
       (11) $16,627,000 from ``Science and Technology, Research, 
     Development, Acquisition, and Operations'' account 70x0800.

                              (rescission)

       Sec. 574.  From the unobligated balances made available in 
     the Department of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund established by 
     section 9703 of title 31, United States Code, (added by 
     section 638 of Public Law 102-393), $175,000,000 shall be 
     rescinded.

                             (rescissions)

       Sec. 575.  Of the funds transferred to the Department of 
     Homeland Security when it was created in 2003, the following 
     funds are hereby rescinded from the following accounts and 
     programs in the specified amounts:
       (1) $1,317,018 from ``U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 
     Salaries and Expenses'';
       (2) $57,998 from ``Coast Guard, Acquisition, Construction, 
     and Improvements'';
       (3) $17,597 from ``Federal Emergency Management Agency, 
     Office of Domestic Preparedness''; and
       (4) $82,926 from ``Federal Emergency Management Agency, 
     National Predisaster Mitigation Fund''.
       Sec. 576.  The following unobligated balances made 
     available to the Department of Homeland Security pursuant to 
     section 505 of the Department of Homeland Security 
     Appropriations Act, 2014 (Public Law 113-76) are rescinded:
       (1) $463,404 from ``Office of the Secretary and Executive 
     Management'';
       (2) $47,023 from ``Office of the Under Secretary for 
     Management'';
       (3) $29,852 from ``Office of the Chief Financial Officer'';
       (4) $16,346 from ``Office of the Chief Information 
     Officer'';
       (5) $816,384 from ``Analysis and Operations'';
       (6) $158,931 from ``Office of Inspector General'';
       (7) $635,153 from ``U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 
     Salaries and Expenses'';
       (8) $65,195 from ``U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 
     Automation Modernization'';
       (9) $96,177 from ``U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air 
     and Marine Operations'';
       (10) $2,368,902 from ``U.S. Immigration and Customs 
     Enforcement, Salaries and Expenses'';
       (11) $600,000 from ``Transportation Security 
     Administration, Federal Air Marshals'';
       (12) $3,096,521 from ``Coast Guard, Operating Expenses'';
       (13) $208,654 from ``Coast Guard, Reserve Training'';
       (14) $1,722,319 from ``Coast Guard, Acquisition, 
     Construction, and Improvements'';
       (15) $1,256,900 from ``United States Secret Service, 
     Salaries and Expenses'';
       (16) $107,432 from ``National Protection and Programs 
     Directorate, Management and Administration'';
       (17) $679,212 from ``National Protection and Programs 
     Directorate, Infrastructure Protection and Information 
     Security'';
       (18) $26,169 from ``Office of Biometric Identity 
     Management'';
       (19) $37,201 from ``Office of Health Affairs'';
       (20) $818,184 from ``Federal Emergency Management Agency, 
     Salaries and Expenses'';
       (21) $447,280 from ``Federal Emergency Management Agency, 
     State and Local Programs'';
       (22) $98,841 from ``Federal Emergency Management Agency, 
     United States Fire Administration'';
       (23) $448,073 from ``United States Citizenship and 
     Immigration Services'';
       (24) $519,503 from ``Federal Law Enforcement Training 
     Center, Salaries and Expenses'';
       (25) $500,005 from ``Science and Technology, Management and 
     Administration''; and
       (26) $68,910 from ``Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, 
     Management and Administration''.

                              (rescission)

       Sec. 577.  Of the unobligated balances made available to 
     ``Federal Emergency Management Agency, Disaster Relief 
     Fund'', $375,000,000 shall be rescinded:  Provided, That no 
     amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were designated by 
     the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a 
     concurrent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended:  
     Provided further, That no amounts may be rescinded from the 
     amounts that were designated by the Congress as being for 
     disaster relief pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
       Sec. 578.  The explanatory statement regarding this Act, 
     printed in the House of Representatives section of the 
     Congressional Record, on or about January 13, 2015, by the 
     Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the House, 
     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.
       This Act may be cited as the ``Department of Homeland 
     Security Appropriations Act, 2015''.

  The Acting CHAIR. No amendment to the bill shall be in order except 
those printed in part B of House Report 114-2. Each such amendment may 
be offered only in the order printed in the report, by a Member 
designated in the report, shall be considered read, shall be debatable 
for the time specified in the report, equally divided and controlled by 
the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and 
shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question.


                Amendment No. 1 Offered by Mr. Aderholt

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 1 
printed in part B of House Report 114-2.
  Mr. ADERHOLT. I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. ____. (a) No funds, resources, or fees made available 
     to the Secretary of Homeland Security, or to any other 
     official of a Federal agency, by this Act or any other Act 
     for any fiscal year, including any deposits into the 
     ``Immigration Examinations Fee Account'' established under 
     section 286(m) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
     U.S.C. 1356(m)), may be used to implement, administer, 
     enforce, or carry out (including through the issuance of any 
     regulations) any of the policy changes set forth in the 
     following memoranda (or any substantially similar policy 
     changes issued or taken on or after January 9, 2015, whether 
     set forth in memorandum, Executive order, regulation, 
     directive, or by other action):
       (1) The memorandum from the Director of U.S. Immigration 
     and Customs Enforcement entitled ``Civil Immigration 
     Enforcement: Priorities for the Apprehension, Detention, and 
     Removal of Aliens'' dated March 2, 2011.
       (2) The memorandum from the Director of U.S. Immigration 
     and Customs Enforcement entitled ``Exercising Prosecutorial 
     Discretion Consistent with the Civil Immigration Enforcement 
     Priorities of the Agency for the Apprehension, Detention, and 
     Removal of Aliens'' dated June 17, 2011.
       (3) The memorandum from the Principal Legal Advisor of U.S. 
     Immigration and Customs Enforcement entitled ``Case-by-Case 
     Review of Incoming and Certain Pending Cases'' dated November 
     17, 2011.
       (4) The memorandum from the Director of U.S. Immigration 
     and Customs Enforcement entitled ``Civil Immigration 
     Enforcement: Guidance on the Use of Detainers in the Federal, 
     State, Local, and Tribal Criminal Justice Systems'' dated 
     December 21, 2012.
       (5) The memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
     entitled ``Southern Border and Approaches Campaign'' dated 
     November 20, 2014.
       (6) The memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
     entitled ``Policies for the Apprehension, Detention and 
     Removal of Undocumented Immigrants'' dated November 20, 2014.

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       (7) The memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
     entitled ``Secure Communities'' dated November 20, 2014.
       (8) The memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
     entitled ``Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect 
     to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children and 
     with Respect to Certain Individuals Who Are the Parents of 
     U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents'' dated November 20, 
     2014.
       (9) The memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
     entitled ``Expansion of the Provisional Waiver Program'' 
     dated November 20, 2014.
       (10) The memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
     entitled ``Policies Supporting U.S. High-Skilled Businesses 
     and Workers'' dated November 20, 2014.
       (11) The memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
     entitled ``Families of U.S. Armed Forces Members and 
     Enlistees'' dated November 20, 2014.
       (12) The memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
     entitled ``Directive to Provide Consistency Regarding Advance 
     Parole'' dated November 20, 2014.
       (13) The memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
     entitled ``Policies to Promote and Increase Access to U.S. 
     Citizenship'' dated November 20, 2014.
       (14) The memorandum from the President entitled 
     ``Modernizing and Streamlining the U.S. Immigrant Visa System 
     for the 21st Century'' dated November 21, 2014.
       (15) The memorandum from the President entitled ``Creating 
     Welcoming Communities and Fully Integrating Immigrants and 
     Refugees'' dated November 21, 2014.
       (b) The memoranda referred to in subsection (a) (or any 
     substantially similar policy changes issued or taken on or 
     after January 9, 2015, whether set forth in memorandum, 
     Executive order, regulation, directive, or by other action) 
     have no statutory or constitutional basis and therefore have 
     no legal effect.
       (c) No funds or fees made available to the Secretary of 
     Homeland Security, or to any other official of a Federal 
     agency, by this Act or any other Act for any fiscal year, 
     including any deposits into the ``Immigration Examinations 
     Fee Account'' established under section 286(m) of the 
     Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356(m)), may be 
     used to grant any Federal benefit to any alien pursuant to 
     any of the policy changes set forth in the memoranda referred 
     to in subsection (a) (or any substantially similar policy 
     changes issued or taken on or after January 9, 2015, whether 
     set forth in memorandum, Executive order, regulation, 
     directive, or by other action).
       (d) The budgetary effects of this section shall not be 
     entered on either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to 
     section 4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.
       (e) Notwithstanding Rule 3 of the Budget Scorekeeping 
     Guidelines set forth in the joint explanatory statement of 
     the committee of conference accompanying Conference Report 
     105-217 and section 250(c)(8) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the budgetary effects 
     of this section shall not be estimated--
       (1) for purposes of section 251 of the such Act; and
       (2) for purposes of paragraph 4(C) of section 3 of the 
     Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 as being included in an 
     appropriation Act.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 27, the gentleman from 
Alabama (Mr. Aderholt) and a Member opposed each will control 10 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Alabama.
  Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank the chairman of the 
Appropriations Committee (Mr. Carter) for his leadership in putting a 
great bill and a comprehensive bill before us this morning that deals 
with protecting the homeland.
  I am presenting today, along with my distinguished colleagues--in 
particular, from South Carolina (Mr. Mulvaney), and also Mr. Barletta 
from Pennsylvania--an amendment that defunds the President's 
unconstitutional executive actions on illegal immigration.
  As it has been noted here last night and this morning, back in 
December, the House voted to fund the Federal Government for this 
fiscal year, FY15, but we kept funding for the Department of Homeland 
Security on a continuing resolution. By doing so, we were making a 
promise to the American people. It was a promise that once we had a 
Republican Senate, we would work together as a Congress to ensure the 
President's unconstitutional and unilateral actions would not go 
unchecked. Today, this promise has been kept with this amendment before 
us today.
  At this time, I would like to yield 1 minute to the distinguished 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Carter), the chairman of the Homeland 
Security Subcommittee on Appropriations.
  Mr. CARTER of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of this 
amendment. The executive actions of November 20, 2014, and the Morton 
memos of 2011 and 2012 are in direct contravention of congressional 
intent and have no standing in current law and must be dismantled.
  Apparently, the President learned nothing from the devastating 
results of his previous executive amnesty, Deferred Action for 
Childhood Arrivals, DACA, which led to nearly 70,000 children arriving 
on our southern border last summer at a cost of hundreds of millions of 
dollars to the American taxpayer.
  This amendment turns back the President's shortsighted executive 
overreach, and for that reason, I strongly support its passage.
  Mr. Chairman, we will also consider four additional amendments today. 
All of them seek to correct many of the dangerous actions the President 
has taken on this issue and restore the rule of law. I plan to support 
all of these amendments and urge my colleagues to do the same.
  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in 
opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time 
as I may utilize.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to this poison pill 
amendment, which is a laundry list of attacks on anything the executive 
branch has done to improve immigration and border security policy. It 
caters to every whim of the Republican Conference's most extreme 
elements. It would defund the Secretary's Southern Border and 
Approaches Campaign designed to unify border security efforts. It would 
defund policies to improve employment-based immigration, to bring 
highly skilled workers into our country. It would defund the policy to 
parole in place family members of citizens or lawful permanent 
residents who seek to enlist in the U.S. military, a policy supported 
by the Department of Defense. Incredibly, it would defund the 
Department's provision of temporary relief to individuals who were 
brought to this country illegally as children--those covered by the 
DREAM Act--and to the parents of U.S. citizens who meet certain 
criteria.
  Of course, it would defund the Secretary's policy of setting 
immigration enforcement priorities. Every prosecutor in this country 
exercises some level of discretion to make the most of limited 
resources. We want our police to pursue murderers over traffic 
violators. We also should want DHS to focus enforcement efforts on 
illegal immigrants who pose a threat to our communities.
  Now, it would be preferable--as the President is the first to 
acknowledge--to pass comprehensive immigration reform to address our 
country's festering immigration challenges. But in the face of House 
Republicans' failure to act, the President has taken well-considered 
steps, each of them well-grounded in law and precedent. If the 
Republican majority wishes to change the law in some way to deny him 
such authority, they should introduce legislation to do so. But 
adoption of this amendment would sabotage the Homeland Security funding 
bill and undermine our Nation's security at a time of great danger.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment, and I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. McCarthy), the majority leader of the House of 
Representatives to speak, and thank him for his leadership.
  Mr. McCARTHY. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Chairman, when the President was asked about his deportation 
policy early in 2013, President Obama said:

       I am the President of the United States of America. I am 
     not the emperor of the United States. My job is to execute 
     laws that are passed.

  Mr. Chairman, a few days earlier he said:

       I am not a king. I am the head of the executive branch of 
     government. I am required to follow the law.

  Twenty-two times, Mr. Chairman, the President said he couldn't ignore 
immigration law and create new laws by himself. But now, Mr. Chairman, 
President Obama has done exactly what he said he could not do. What 
changed between then and now? Nothing. Our Constitution is exactly the

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same, and Congress still retains the sole power to legislate.
  Mr. Chairman, Presidents do not have the right to rewrite any law in 
any instance. This fact is explicitly clear in regards to immigration. 
Actually, when it comes to immigration, the Supreme Court stated:

       Over no conceivable subject is the legislative power of 
     Congress more complete.

  This is not a battle between Democrats and Republicans or a battle 
between pro-immigration and anti-immigration. It doesn't matter 
whether, Mr. Chairman, you like the results of what the President did 
or not. This is about resisting the assault on democratic government 
and protecting the constitutional separation of powers.
  Let me be clear. This bill funds the entire Department of Homeland 
Security, so that is not an issue here. So when we vote today, there is 
only one question to ask: Do we weaken our Constitution by allowing the 
Executive to legislate, or do we defend the most fundamental laws of 
our democracy? There is no middle ground.
  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Lowey), our ranking member on 
Appropriations.
  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Chairman, the 114th Congress started 1 week ago with 
Republican leadership saying they wanted to work together and govern 
maturely. Well, it only took a week for Republican leadership to fold 
to its rightwing. Instead of compromise, we see confrontation.
  Make no mistakes. The amendments being debated this morning would 
stop the bill, would kill the bill, hurt those who were brought here as 
children and know no other country than the United States, prevent the 
Department of Homeland Security from prioritizing the deportation of 
national security threats and dangerous felons, and are little more 
than a collection of political sound bites.
  If you don't agree with the President's enforcement actions, which 
are legal and similar to steps taken by several Republican Presidents, 
then let us have a serious debate about comprehensive immigration 
reform, then bring an immigration bill to the floor.
  Mr. Chairman, the President's executive actions will grow the economy 
by $90 billion to $210 billion over the next 10 years and raise average 
wages for U.S.-born workers by $170 a year. The House Republican 
proposal would not only eradicate these gains, but harm numerous 
security initiatives. After the tragic events in Paris, it is appalling 
that some would jeopardize our national security by adding these 
irresponsible amendments.
  Let's vote against these poison bills and move forward with a solid, 
bipartisan Homeland Security bill supported by Democrats, Republicans, 
the House, and the Senate.
  Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the distinguished 
gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Goodlatte), the chairman of the House 
Judiciary Committee.
  Mr. GOODLATTE. I thank the gentleman for yielding and for his 
leadership on this issue.
  The Acting CHAIR. Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to support the 
Aderholt-Mulvaney-Barletta amendment. The amendment will completely 
defund President Obama's unconstitutional power grab granting deferred 
action status and work authorization to over 4 million unlawful aliens. 
This policy threatens the separation of powers between Congress and the 
executive branch and violates President Obama's obligation to take care 
that the laws be faithfully executed.
  In addition to barring the use of appropriated funds to carry out 
this policy, the amendment will also bar President Obama from using 
immigration user fees to accomplish his executive fiat.
  Mr. Chairman, the amendment also defunds the Obama administration's 
so-called prosecutorial discretion memos that have gutted immigration 
enforcement within the United States, and the amendment defunds the 
ability of illegal aliens to receive any Federal benefit based on these 
policies.
  Finally, the amendment makes clear that the defunded programs have no 
statutory or constitutional basis and, therefore, have no legal effect.
  I again urge my colleagues to support this very good amendment.

                              {time}  0930

  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Gutierrez), the chairman of the 
Immigration Task Force of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
  Mr. GUTIERREZ. Wow, time flies when you are playing politics with 
people's lives. Just a year ago, as the Republican majority was rushing 
off to their retreat, they had a very different story. Here it is:

       House immigration reform, 2013. Goodlatte-Cantor working to 
     give legal status to kids. House GOP leaders embrace 
     immigration fix that includes status for undocumented. 
     Republicans see the light on immigration reform.

  And what are the headlines today? Behold the Republican immigration 
strategy: mass deportation.
  One year ago--this is the difference in the headlines that your 
party's public policy on immigration has caused. But wait, let's see 
what you said in your principles:

       It is time to provide an opportunity for legal residence 
     and citizenship for those who were brought to this country as 
     children through no fault of their own, those who knew no 
     other place as home.

  Citizenship, legal residence for the undocumented youth--that was 
your idea, one that we applauded and we accepted and we cheered on. And 
1 year later, you want to take away from 600,000 DREAMers their right 
to live in this country and to live legally. You want to deport them 
all. What happened? What happened?
  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair would remind the gentleman to direct 
remarks to the Chair and not to other Members.
  Mr. GUTIERREZ. Well, then let me say this. I just think if that is 
what happened in 1 year, what are you going to come up with next year? 
What is your game plan for next year if this is the kind of position 
you have taken from one year to the next?
  But let me just say this. The action you take today I know you 
believe will cause fear and confusion and consternation in the 
immigrant community throughout this Nation, thereby causing the failure 
of the President's executive order because no one will sign up.
  But let me tell you something. The fruits of your action today will 
cause only anger and outrage and the mobilization of an immigrant 
community throughout this Nation that will be the death knell of the 
future of your party as a national institution. That is what you will 
reap today with this.
  Tonight, I will be with Congressman Cicilline, and I will be there 
standing with the Catholic Diocese, with evangelicals, with men of 
faith in Providence, Rhode Island, and people will come forward. Where 
will the Republican Party be? Simply telling them that we cannot do 
anything.
  Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the distinguished 
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Barletta), the cosponsor of this 
amendment, who has been very helpful in crafting this amendment.
  Mr. BARLETTA. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of my amendment which I 
coauthored with my colleagues. Its purpose is simple. We defund 
President Obama's unlawful executive amnesty program for illegal 
immigrants. As we know, the President announced it only 2 months ago. 
But we also know that is not when this executive amnesty truly began. 
It began in 2011 with the Morton memos. Those memos told officials not 
to pursue certain broad categories of illegal immigrants.
  Our amendment defunds the enforcement of those memos, and that goes 
to the heart of the amnesty program. In short, these memos told 
immigration officers to view the law the way President Obama wished it 
had been written rather than how Congress actually wrote it. That is 
the crux of this.
  In the United States, we still have a legislative branch of 
government. Our amendment defends it.
  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Linda T. Sanchez), the chair of the 
Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
  Ms. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California. Mr. Chairman, I rise today to 
speak against H.R. 240, the venomous and dangerous Republican 
appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security.

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  This bill and its amendments pander to those in the Republican Party 
who are unhappy with President Obama's executive action on immigration. 
It is malicious and foolishly puts our country at risk. Republicans 
brought this legislation under the guise of defending the Constitution, 
but the President's actions are constitutional. The obstruction and 
political games that Republicans are playing are the true behaviors 
that need to be condemned.
  Republicans aren't interested in offering solutions or working to 
tackle the most pressing issues facing our country. How do I know? 
Because instead of offering a long-term solution to fix our broken 
immigration system, Republicans have opted to hold hostage funding for 
one of the most critical agencies in our government. As they peddle 
their malice about immigrants to pander to their base, they put our 
national security at risk. We should be doing everything we can to 
provide our security agencies with the support and the resources they 
need to prevent attacks like the one that occurred in France last week. 
Instead, Republicans are willing to withhold funding our national 
security in order to send a message to the President.
  And as if that weren't juvenile enough, this bill also attacks the 
most vulnerable in our society. Republican amendments seek to 
revictimize those who have suffered domestic violence, picking on one 
of the groups least able to defend themselves. When I was a kid, we 
just called that bullying.
  Republicans are consciously targeting millions of families who work 
hard, who contribute to their communities and are just trying to give 
their children a chance at the American Dream. You know, that same 
dream that many of our parents and grandparents had when they came to 
this country.
  Mr. Chairman, with this bill, Republicans are not just abandoning 
basic humanity, they are also turning their backs on the economic 
benefits that come with bringing these people out of the shadows.
  We could grow our economy anywhere from $90 billion to $210 billion 
over the next 10 years if we allow workers a chance to participate in 
the formal economy.
  This is a new Congress and a new opportunity to work together. As a 
country, we are better than this. Shame on you.
  Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the distinguished 
gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Mulvaney), who is not only a 
cosponsor of this amendment but who, again, was very instrumental in 
this amendment taking place.
  Mr. MULVANEY. Mr. Chairman, I am going to do something I don't 
ordinarily do on this floor, which is implore my colleagues across the 
aisle to please, please, please, support this amendment. Let's take 
away for at least one day the ``R'' or the ``D'' from behind the 
President's name. Let's take away the ``R'' or the ``D'' from behind 
our names and look at this for what it is: a President doing something 
he says he cannot do--make law--using the excuse that this body cannot 
act so that he can. That is not how the system works, and it is wrong.
  I am here today to tell you that if in the future a Republican 
President does the same thing, I will be the first to be here with you 
to stand against that, to fight back.
  But today I implore you to please support the amendment even if you 
are voting against the bill in order to send the message that law is 
not made in the White House. Law is not made because Congress fails to 
act. Law is made in this room when we do act, and every single time any 
President violates that, he violates all of this institution.
  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Mr. Chairman, may I inquire as to the 
remaining time on both sides?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from North Carolina has 2 minutes 
remaining. The gentleman from Alabama has 4 minutes remaining.
  Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Chairman, I yield 30 seconds to the distinguished 
gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa).
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Chairman, our Nation's Constitution is clear. 
Congress holds the power of the purse. There are no exceptions. There 
is no asterisk, and there is no fine print. The Founders designed our 
government in order to prevent these exact circumstances--a President 
who ignores the law, refuses to work with Congress and intends to 
govern unilaterally.
  Whatever your views on the President's plan, it is the responsibility 
of every Member of this House to support this amendment, to maintain 
our representative government, and to uphold the framework of our 
Republic.
  Our immigration system isn't broken. It is just not being used.
  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of 
my time to close.
  Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Chairman, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from 
Alabama (Mr. Palmer), who is joining us from the Birmingham area and is 
a new Member of the House of Representatives.
  Mr. PALMER. Mr. Chairman, President Obama has created a 
constitutional crisis by taking action that in his own words ``changes 
the law.'' That power is not vested in the President. It is vested in 
Congress, along with the power of the purse, as has been mentioned, to 
take action when the executive branch overreaches.
  This isn't about immigration policy. It is about defending and 
upholding the Constitution. In that regard, this amendment defunds the 
President's actions, and I am proud to support it.
  Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Chairman, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Sensenbrenner).
  Mr. SENSENBRENNER. Mr. Chairman, 8 days ago Members of this House 
said the following:

       I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the 
     Constitution of the United States against all enemies, 
     foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and 
     allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, 
     without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and 
     that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the 
     office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

  This is a question of whether this House and its Members fulfill that 
oath. We have a choice here. We can either agree with what the 
President did or defend the Constitution. Vote ``aye.''
  Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Chairman, I yield 30 seconds to the distinguished 
gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Westerman), a new Member to this body.
  Mr. WESTERMAN. I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I rise in 
support of this amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, many of my constituents are much like me. We are ready 
for a government that works like the one that we studied in civics 
class, one with coequal branches of power.
  Winston Churchill once stated that the price of greatness is 
responsibility. As members of the legislative branch, voting ``yes'' 
for this amendment is a responsible step in the right direction.
  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of 
my time to close.
  Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Chairman, again let me just say before the 
gentleman closes, the amendment here before us today prevents any funds 
appropriated, or user fees collected by any Federal agency, to be used 
to carry out the executive actions that were announced on November 20, 
2014, which would grant deferred action to an estimated 4 million 
people in the country illegally and unlawfully.
  Again, this goes back to a promise that was made by the Republican 
House of Representatives at the end of last year, and we addressed this 
issue saying that we would work on this issue, make a commitment to 
address this issue of the President's action when this bill came to the 
floor, and this is fulfilling that promise today.
  Again, I would ask my colleagues to support this amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.

                              {time}  0945

  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time 
as I may consume.
  I want to close by again thanking colleagues on both sides of the 
aisle for the good work done on the underlying bill, our bipartisan, 
bicameral negotiated agreement on Homeland Security.
  It is really a shame that we are faced here today with an amendment 
that has the potential to wreck this good bill and to damage the 
Homeland Security Department so badly. Now, I don't say that lightly. I 
think Members

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know I don't interject terms like ``poison pill'' into debates lightly; 
but, believe me, that term applies to the amendment we are now 
considering.
  This amendment caters to every whim of the most extreme elements of 
the Republican Conference. It doesn't just roll back the President's 
recent executive action--which, by the way, is thoroughly grounded in 
law and precedent. It goes beyond that. It rolls back in its entirety 
the progress that has been made over many years on prioritizing 
dangerous criminals for deportation and bringing common sense to our 
deportation policy.
  In pursuing this political vendetta, Republicans are putting at risk 
a full-year funding bill, worked out months ago, for the Department of 
Homeland Security, and they are doing that at a time of heightened 
alert.
  Mr. Chairman, this is an egregious abuse, probably the worst I have 
ever seen, of the appropriations process. More than that, it is a 
reprehensible, reckless tactic which will compromise--has already 
compromised--the full and effective functioning of our Homeland 
Security Department and puts the security of our country at risk.
  This amendment richly deserves our rejection, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to the Aderholt-
Mulvaney-Barletta Amendment to H.R. 240, the Fiscal Year 2015 Homeland 
Security Appropriations Act.
  I oppose the amendment because it is nothing more than the Republican 
majority's latest partisan attack on the President and another 
diversionary tactic to avoid addressing the challenge posed by the 
nation's broken immigration system.
  The President will veto the underlying bill if the Aderholt Amendment 
is adopted so I urge my colleagues to defeat this irresponsible 
amendment which has the potential to put the security of our homeland 
at risk.
  House Republicans are playing a dangerous game of Russian Roulette 
with the security of America's homeland by recklessly adding this 
``poison pill'' to legislation needed to fund the agencies and programs 
charged with securing the border and protecting the homeland.
  Mr. Chair, the Aderholt Amendment seeks to prohibit the executive 
branch from exempting or deferring from deportation any immigrants 
considered to be unlawfully present in the United States under U.S. 
immigration law, and to prohibit the administration from treating those 
immigrants as if they were lawfully present or had lawful immigration 
status.
  The amendment bill seeks to make January 9, 2015 the effective date 
of these prohibitions--thereby retroactively blocking the executive 
actions taken President Obama to address our broken immigration system 
by providing smarter enforcement at the border, prioritize deporting 
felons--not families--and allowing certain undocumented immigrants, 
including the parents of U.S. citizens and lawful residents, who pass a 
criminal background check and pay taxes to temporarily stay in the U.S. 
without fear of deportation.
  Mr. Chair, let me briefly discuss why the executive actions taken by 
President Obama are reasonable, responsible, and within his 
constitutional authority.
  Under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution, the President, who 
is the nation's Chief Executive, ``shall take Care that the Laws be 
faithfully executed.''
  In addition to establishing the President's obligation to execute the 
law, the Supreme Court has consistently interpreted the Take Care 
Clause as ensuring presidential control over those who execute and 
enforce the law and the authority to decide how best to enforce the 
laws. See, e.g., Arizona v. United States; Bowsher v. Synar; Buckley V. 
Valeo; Printz v. United States; Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB.
  Every law enforcement agency, including the agencies that enforce 
immigration laws, has ``prosecutorial discretion''--the power to decide 
whom to investigate, arrest, detain, charge, and prosecute.
  Agencies, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), 
may develop discretionary policies specific to the laws they are 
charged with enforcing, the population they serve, and the problems 
they face so that they can prioritize resources to meet mission 
critical enforcement goals.
  Executive authority to take action is thus ``fairly wide,'' indeed 
the federal government's discretion is extremely ``broad'' as the 
Supreme Court held in the recent case of Arizona v. United States, 132 
S. Ct. 2492, 2499 (2012), an opinion written Justice Kennedy and joined 
by Chief Justice Roberts:

       Congress has specified which aliens may be removed from the 
     United States and the procedures for doing so. Aliens may be 
     removed if they were inadmissible at the time of entry, have 
     been convicted of certain crimes, or meet other criteria set 
     by federal law. Removal is a civil, not criminal, matter. A 
     principal feature of the removal system is the broad 
     discretion exercised by immigration officials. Federal 
     officials, as an initial matter, must decide whether it makes 
     sense to pursue removal at all. If removal proceedings 
     commence, aliens may seek asylum and other discretionary 
     relief allowing them to remain in the country or at least to 
     leave without formal removal. (emphasis added) (citations 
     omitted).

  The Court's decision in Arizona v. United States, also strongly 
suggests that the executive branch's discretion in matters of 
deportation may be exercised on an individual basis, or it may be used 
to protect entire classes of individuals such as ``[u]nauthorized 
workers trying to support their families'' or immigrants who originate 
from countries torn apart by internal conflicts:

       Discretion in the enforcement of immigration law embraces 
     immediate human concerns. Unauthorized workers trying to 
     support their families, for example, likely pose less danger 
     than alien smugglers or aliens who commit a serious crime. 
     The equities of an individual case may turn on many factors, 
     including whether the alien has children born in the United 
     States, long ties to the community, or a record of 
     distinguished military service.
       Some discretionary decisions involve policy choices that 
     bear on this Nation's international relations. Returning an 
     alien to his own country may be deemed inappropriate even 
     where he has committed a removable offense or fails to meet 
     the criteria for admission. The foreign state may be mired in 
     civil war, complicit in political persecution, or enduring 
     conditions that create a real risk that the alien or his 
     family will be harmed upon return.
       The dynamic nature of relations with other countries 
     requires the Executive Branch to ensure that enforcement 
     policies are consistent with this Nation's foreign policy 
     with respect to these and other realities.

  Mr. Chair, in exercising his broad discretion in the area of removal 
proceedings, President Obama has acted responsibly and reasonably in 
determining the circumstances in which it makes sense to pursue removal 
and when it does not.
  In exercising this broad discretion, President Obama not done 
anything that is novel or unprecedented.
  Here are a just a few examples of executive action taken by several 
presidents, both Republican and Democratic, on issues affecting 
immigrants over the past 35 years:
  1. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter exercised parole authority to 
allow Cubans to enter the U.S., and about 123,000 ``Mariel Cubans'' 
were paroled into the U.S. by 1981.
  2. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan used executive action in 1987 to 
allow 200,000 Nicaraguans facing deportation to apply for relief from 
expulsion and work authorization.
  3. In 1990, President George H.W. Bush issued an executive order that 
granted Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) to certain nationals of the 
People's Republic of China who were in the United States.
  4. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush granted DED to certain 
nationals of El Salvador.
  5. In 1997, President Bill Clinton issued an executive order granting 
DED to certain Haitians who had arrived in the United States before 
Dec. 31, 1995.
  6. In 2010 the Obama administration began a policy of granting parole 
to the spouses, parents, and children of military members.
  Mr. Chair, because of the President's leadership and far-sighted 
executive action, 594,000 undocumented immigrants in my home state of 
Texas are eligible for deferred action.
  If these immigrants are able to remain united with their families and 
receive a temporary work permit, it would lead to a $338 million 
increase in tax revenues, over five years.
  Mr. Chair, the President's laudable executive actions are a welcome 
development but not a substitute modernizing the nation's immigration 
laws. Only Congress can do that.
  America's borders are dynamic, with constantly evolving security 
challenges. Border security must be undertaken in a manner that allows 
actors to use pragmatism and common sense.
  And as shown by the success in the last Congress of H.R. 1417, the 
bipartisan ``Border Security Results Act, which I helped to write and 
introduced along with the senior leaders of the House Homeland Security 
Committee, we can do this without putting the nation at risk or 
rejecting our national heritage as a welcoming and generous nation.
  This legislation has been incorporated in H.R. 15, the bipartisan 
``Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization 
Act,'' legislation which reflects nearly all of the core principles 
announced professed last year by House Republicans.
  As a nation of immigrants, the United States has set the example for 
the world as to what can be achieved when people of diverse 
backgrounds, cultures, and experiences come together.

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  It is now time to open the golden symbolized by Lady Liberty's lamp 
to the immigrant community of today so they can participate fully in 
the American Dream.
  These loyal and law-abiding persons have been waiting patiently for 
far too long for their chance.
  We can and should seize this historic opportunity pass legislation to 
ensure that we have in place adequate systems and resources to secure 
our borders while at the same preserving America's character as the 
most open and welcoming country in the history of the world and to reap 
the hundreds of billions of dollars in economic productivity that will 
result from comprehensive immigration reform.
  President Obama has acted boldly, responsibly, and compassionately in 
exercising his constitutional authority to enforce the immigration laws 
in an effective and humane manner.
  If congressional Republicans, who refused to debate comprehensive 
immigration reform legislation for more than 500 days, disapprove of 
the lawful actions taken by the President, an alternative course of 
action is readily available to them: pass a bill and send it to the 
President for signature.
  The President has shown responsible leadership. The next move is for 
congressional Republicans to stop playing Russian Roulette with the 
security of America's homeland and bring to the floor a clean Homeland 
Security spending bill that the President can sign into law.
  I urge all Members to join me in opposing the rule and the underlying 
bill.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Aderholt).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Alabama will 
be postponed.


               Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mrs. Blackburn

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 2 
printed in part B of House Report 114-2.
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. ___. (a) No funds, resources or fees made available to 
     the Secretary of Homeland Security, or to any other official 
     of a Federal agency, by this Act or any other Act for any 
     fiscal year, including any deposits into the ``Immigration 
     Examinations Fee Account'' established under section 286(m) 
     of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 USC 1356(m)), may 
     be used to consider or adjudicate any new, renewal or 
     previously denied application for any alien requesting 
     consideration of deferred action for childhood arrivals, as 
     authorized by the Executive memorandum dated June 15, 2012, 
     and effective on August 15, 2012 (or any substantially 
     similar policy changes issued or taken on or after January 9, 
     2015, whether set forth in memorandum, Executive order, 
     regulation, directive, or by other action).
       (b) The budgetary effects of this section shall not be 
     entered on either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to 
     section 4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.
       (c) Notwithstanding Rule 3 of the Budget Scorekeeping 
     Guidelines set forth in the joint explanatory statement of 
     the committee of conference accompanying Conference Report 
     105-217 and section 250(c)(8) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the budgetary effects 
     of this section shall not be estimated--
       (1) for purposes of section 251 of the such Act; and
       (2) for purposes of paragraph 4(C) of section 3 of the 
     Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 as being included in an 
     appropriation Act.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 27, the gentlewoman 
from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) and a Member opposed each will control 
5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Tennessee.
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I rise today in support of my amendment to freeze the President's 
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which was unlawfully 
created by executive memo on June 15, 2012.
  My amendment prohibits Federal funding, fees, or resources from being 
used to consider or adjudicate any new, renewal, or previously denied 
application for any alien requesting consideration for deferred action.
  Article I, section 8, clause 4 states that the Congress shall have 
power ``to establish an uniform rule of naturalization''--Congress, not 
the Executive. President Obama has circumvented Congress and 
unilaterally rewritten immigration law from the Oval Office.
  A Federal judge in Pennsylvania said President Obama's amnesty is 
unconstitutional and that, number one, ``Inaction by Congress does not 
make unconstitutional executive action constitutional''; and, number 
two, ``Executive action goes beyond prosecutorial discretion. It is 
legislation.'' That is the reason we bring the amendment.
  At this time, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. 
Goodlatte), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
  Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, 
and I strongly support her amendment to H.R. 240, which prohibits 
Federal funding or resources from being used to adjudicate any new, 
renewal, or previously denied application for the President's Deferred 
Action for Childhood Arrivals program. It is that simple.
  The President's DACA program, announced by the President and the 
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security on June 15, 2012, 
violates the laws Congress has written and is a usurpation of the 
plenary authority over immigration law that article I, section 8, 
clause 4 of the United States Constitution confers upon the legislative 
branch.
  For these reasons, I urge my colleagues to support the gentlewoman's 
amendment to defund DACA.
  Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Michigan is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Chair, I am very disturbed by the nature of this 
Blackburn amendment because it would prevent the use of Federal funds 
or resources to consider or adjudicate any new, renewal, or any 
previously denied application for Deferred Action for Childhood 
Arrivals, DACA, or any subsequently similar program. This amendment is 
similar to the same Blackburn bill that passed the House in August of 
2014.
  This amendment clearly terminates the DACA program, the DREAMers, 
ladies and gentlemen, my colleagues. The amendment prevents new persons 
from applying for DACA and explicitly prohibits further efforts to 
renew deferred action under this amendment.
  Hundreds of thousands of young people who came forward, passed 
background checks, obtained DACA, and have since followed the law would 
be deportable at the end of their 2-year deferred action period. This 
is serious; it is dangerous.
  The amendment is anti-immigrant and antifamily. This is a vote to 
deport DREAMers. These applicants who have applied have positive 
impacts on both job growth and economy.
  The amendment would leave DACA applicants without work authorization 
and would expose many of them to deportation to a country that they 
don't even know. We should be passing legislation to keep DACA 
recipients in our country because they have a net impact on our 
communities.
  The amendment is one more of the same anti-immigrant-type rhetoric 
that has dominated conservatives and is further evidence that the 
majority is not interested in fixing our broken immigration system, but 
is only interested in penalizing members of our community who seek to 
work, go to school, and remain with their family.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Chairman, at this time, I yield 1 minute to the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Marino), who is one of our Members who 
had truly a significant career as a prosecutor before coming to this 
Chamber.
  Mr. MARINO. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Blackburn 
amendment today.
  The amendment prevents funding from going towards the Deferred Action 
for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA. Make no mistake about 
it, this program has become a magnet for drawing children from Central 
America, further putting thousands of children's lives at risk as they 
embark on a very dangerous journey, which does not only include unsafe 
conditions, but they are also vulnerable to abuse along the way. This 
program must be shut down.

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  My colleagues on the other side of the aisle are not telling the 
American people that Homeland Security is fully funded. As a matter of 
fact, it has funded more than $1 billion than the President asked for 
and more than $400 million from last year.
  If Homeland Security gets shut down, it is because the President 
vetoes the budget because he cannot get his way on amnesty for illegal 
aliens.
  Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Chairman, I yield the balance of my time to the 
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Gutierrez).
  Mr. GUTIERREZ. Mr. Chairman, I thank Congressman Conyers.
  I just want to go back one moment, so that we can be very clear about 
this because I think we need to understand the difference between the 
rhetoric of today and the rhetoric of 1 year ago.
  This is 1 year ago:

       One of the greatest founding principles of our country was 
     that children would not be punished for the mistakes of their 
     parents.

  I didn't write this. No one on our side of the aisle wrote this. I 
wish I would have. I am sure we would have all been proud to have been 
coauthors or cosponsors of that statement.
  What happened? What happened? What happened to that principle? You 
just gave it up, it doesn't mean anything to you anymore, you don't 
care about children, you think children should be held responsible for 
the actions of their parents? Because that is precisely what you are 
saying today, because 600,000 young people came forward and did exactly 
this.
  Then, wait a minute, it gets better because you said--and we were so 
happy because we thought we were moving forward because we thought the 
Republican Party was finally turning a page. You said:

       It is time to provide an opportunity for legal residence 
     and citizenship for those who were brought to this country as 
     children.

  What happened? I want one of you to deny that this isn't one of the 
principles you took into your conference last year. It is what you 
took. What happened 1 year later?
  Well, you know, here is what happened, I think. You guys always say 
the same thing: Oh, it is that King from Iowa. He tricks us at the last 
second. He brings in one of these poisonous things, and there is 
nothing we can do about it.
  Well, what excuse do you have today, when you did it with all the 
premeditation and thoughtfulness and viciousness to bring this 
amendment forward with the support of your complete Conference? This is 
not a surprise. You thought this out.
  Where are you going to move the country forward to?
  Let me just tell you about one number--yeah, there are 600,000--it is 
270, that is the electoral college. It is the number it takes to elect 
the President of the United States. You are out of reach there.
  The Acting CHAIR (Mrs. Black). The Chair would ask Members to direct 
their remarks to the Chair.
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Chairman, how much time is remaining on each 
side?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Tennessee has 2 minutes 
remaining. The gentleman from Michigan's time has expired.
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Thank you, Madam Chairman.
  I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Let's talk about a couple of these things. The Democrats like to say, 
Madam Chairman, that this is radical.
  Let me ask you a question, let me ask my colleagues a question: Is it 
radical to support the rule of law? Is it radical to fight for American 
workers who are going to lose their jobs to illegal aliens? Is it 
radical to prioritize legal immigrants that are coming to this country? 
Is it radical to try to protect children that are in this program via 
the Office of Refugee Resettlement?
  Democrats are over there saying that Republicans are playing politics 
with national security. Let me ask you another question: Why were they 
saying nothing this summer when the southern border was being overrun 
with all sorts of trafficking--human trafficking, sex trafficking, 
weapons trafficking, drug trafficking?
  Here are the facts. DACA became effective August 15, 2012. In fiscal 
year 2014, the Office of Refugee Resettlement released 53,518 
unaccompanied children here in the U.S. It is a magnet.
  Seventy-five percent of all Americans reject the Obama executive 
amnesty. Eighty percent of Americans don't want foreign workers taking 
jobs from Americans.
  Those are the facts, Madam Chairman.
  To my colleagues, that is why we are here. We have two choices. We 
are either a Nation of laws or we are lawless.
  President Obama is turning every State into a border State, every 
town into a border town; and unfortunately, the lawless amnesty has 
taken Democrats from the party of ``yes, we can'' to acting like the 
party of ``because we can.''
  With that, Madam Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Chair, I rise in opposition to the Blackburn 
Amendment to H.R. 240, the Fiscal Year 2015 Homeland Security 
Appropriations Act.
  I oppose the amendment because it is nothing more than the Republican 
majority's latest partisan attack on the President and another 
diversionary tactic to avoid addressing the challenge posed by the 
nation's broken immigration system.
  The President will veto the underlying bill if the Blackburn 
Amendment is adopted so I urge my colleagues to defeat this 
irresponsible amendment which has the potential to put the security of 
our homeland at risk.
  The Blackburn Amendment would prohibit U.S. Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement (ICE) from using federal funds to implement enforcement 
guidance governing the exercise of prosecutorial discretion to ensure 
that scarce resources are targeted toward aliens who pose a danger to 
national security or a risk to public safety and not wasted on Dream 
Act children who pose no threat to our nation.
  I oppose the Blackburn Amendment because it is hypocritical, 
irresponsible, and mean-spirited.
  It is hypocritical because supporters of the amendment regularly 
claim that their refusal to compromise on budget issues and their 
support for sequestration is motivated by their belief in the 
importance of setting spending priorities.
  Yet, the Blackburn Amendment would deny ICE the ability to use its 
limited resources in the most efficient manner to achieve its highest 
priorities which are apprehend, detain, and remove aliens who pose a 
danger to national security or a risk to public safety.
  The Blackburn Amendment is irresponsible because it seeks to prevent 
trained, experienced, and professional agents and prosecutors from 
exercising their discretion and acting on the basis of what everyone 
knows to be true: that there is a vast difference between a terrorist 
bent on harming America and DREAM Act kid studying hard in school so he 
or she can graduate and join the Armed Services and willingly risk his 
or her life to defend the country.
  This inefficient use of resources wastes taxpayer dollars and does 
nothing to keep America safe.
  Third, the Blackburn Amendment is mean-spirited because it would have 
ICE target its limited resources on innocent, law abiding, young people 
who were brought to this country as children and would have them 
deported to a foreign land even though America is the country they know 
as home and the only to which they have ever pledged allegiance.
  As Member of Congress, I have traveled many times to Iraq and 
Afghanistan and always the highlight of my visit was meeting the young 
men and women who are willingly risking their lives to defend the 
country they love more than life.
  Right now, at this very moment, there are thousands of soldiers 
fighting for us in Afghanistan and elsewhere who are not yet American 
citizens but who dream that one day they will become citizens of the 
nation they gladly risk their lives to defend.
  The Blackburn Amendment, however, would have ICE agents and 
prosecutors pretend to see no difference between someone like these 
veterans who came to this country as an undocumented immigrant and an 
alien engaged in or suspected of espionage or terrorism.
  The Blackburn Amendment wastes the money of hard-working taxpayers.
  It does nothing to make America safer.
  And, just as bad, it is inconsistent with American values of justice 
and fair play.
  Madam Chair, as a nation of immigrants, the United States has set the 
example for the world as to what can be achieved when people of diverse 
backgrounds, cultures, and experiences come together.
  It is now time to open the golden symbolized by Lady Liberty's lamp 
to the immigrant community of today so they can participate fully in 
the American Dream.
  Instead of passing irresponsible measures like the Blackburn 
Amendment, we should instead seize this historic opportunity pass 
legislation to ensure that we have in place adequate systems and 
resources to secure our

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borders while at the same preserving America's character as the most 
open and welcoming country in the world and to reap the hundreds of 
billions of dollars in economic productivity that will result from the 
passage of comprehensive immigration reform legislation.
  I urge all Members to join me in opposing the Blackburn Amendment.

                              {time}  1000

  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. LOFGREN. Madam Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Tennessee 
will be postponed.


                Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. DeSantis

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 3 
printed in part B of House Report 114-2.
  Mr. DeSANTIS. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. ___. (a) No funds or fees made available to the 
     Secretary of Homeland Security by this Act or any other Act 
     for any fiscal year may be used to implement, administer, 
     enforce, or carry out (including through the issuance of any 
     regulations) any policy relating to the apprehension, 
     detention, or removal of aliens that does not treat any alien 
     convicted of any offense involving domestic violence, sexual 
     abuse, child molestation, or child exploitation as within the 
     categories of aliens subject to the Department of Homeland 
     Security's highest civil immigration enforcement priorities.
       (b) The budgetary effects of this section shall not be 
     entered on either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to 
     section 4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.
       (c) Notwithstanding Rule 3 of the Budget Scorekeeping 
     Guidelines set forth in the joint explanatory statement of 
     the committee of conference accompanying Conference Report 
     105-217 and section 250(c)(8) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the budgetary effects 
     of this section shall not be estimated--
       (1) for purposes of section 251 of the such Act; and
       (2) for purposes of paragraph 4(C) of section 3 of the 
     Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 as being included in an 
     appropriation Act.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 27, the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. DeSantis) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Florida.
  Mr. DeSANTIS. Madam Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Alabama (Mrs. Roby).
  Mrs. ROBY. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Madam Chair, I rise today in support of H.R. 240, the Homeland 
Security Appropriations Act, and to offer this amendment alongside my 
colleague, Mr. DeSantis of Florida.
  If we are going to fix a broken immigration law, the way to do it is 
to uphold the rule of law, not undermine it. President Obama has 
offered amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. That not only 
undermines the rule of law, it threatens American jobs. It is dangerous 
and irresponsible.
  I am proud to have worked alongside my colleagues, including Mr. 
Aderholt from Alabama, to get this bill to the floor today so that we 
can responsibly fund the Department of Homeland Security but also 
defund the President's unlawful executive amnesty.
  Madam Chair, do you want a great example of why the President acting 
unilaterally to circumvent Congress is a bad idea? Well, this amendment 
that we offer today demonstrates that.
  Right now, illegal immigrants convicted of child abuse, sexual 
offenders, and domestic abusers, are not a top priority for deportation 
in this country. This amendment simply makes them a priority for 
deportation. This is an example as to why the President circumventing 
Congress is not only a bad idea, but it undermines the law.
  I ask my colleagues to not only support this very important 
amendment, but also to support the underlying bill that uses the power 
of the purse. It is Congress' responsibility to defund the unlawful, 
unconstitutional acts of this President and his executive amnesty.
  Ms. LOFGREN. Madam Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from California is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. LOFGREN. Madam Chair, I yield myself 2 minutes.
  This amendment is unnecessary and harmful. The memorandum issued by 
the Department of Homeland Security already makes people convicted of 
these crimes ineligible for deferred action and already makes them top 
priorities for deportation.
  So, at best, this amendment is duplicative, but it does something 
else. In the memorandum there is this proviso:

       In evaluating whether the offense is a significant 
     misdemeanor involving domestic violence, careful 
     consideration should be given to whether the convicted alien 
     was also the victim of domestic violence. If so, this should 
     be a mitigating factor.

  This amendment leaves that out. And so that is why so many supporters 
of services to domestic violence victims are opposing this amendment. 
That includes the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic 
Violence, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the law enforcement 
officers group. They all oppose this amendment because they say it will 
make victims of domestic violence less able to seek help, less willing 
to call the police, and more likely to remain victims of domestic 
violence.
  Let me make it clear. People who are convicted of aggravated 
felonies, which includes child molestation, child pornography, rape, or 
any crime of violence, are a top priority for deportation. They are 
excluded from relief under what the President did, as are significant 
misdemeanors, which includes convictions of domestic violence.
  So this is really much simpler than it looks. This is trying to 
correct a problem that does not exist, but also creates a problem for 
domestic violence victims in the solution to a nonproblem.
  Madam Chair, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gene Green) for 
a unanimous consent request.
  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to revise and 
extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Madam Chair, I rise in support of a clean 
Homeland Security Appropriations bill that has bipartisan support and 
oppose the Republican amendments.
  Madam Chair, I rise in support of passage of a clean Homeland 
Security Appropriations bill that has bipartisan support and will 
ensure the security of the American people and in opposition to the 
Republican Amendments to this legislation, most notably the Aderholt 
and Blackburn Amendments.
  The Aderholt Amendment would bar the use of any funds to expand the 
DACA program, which has helped thousands of young people in my district 
in North and East Houston and Harris County come out of the shadows and 
be able to go to college and get a job without fear of deportation, as 
well as the Administration's recently announced DAPA initiative, which 
would similarly help up to 5 million immigrants who are parents and 
spouses of U.S. Citizens, who will be required to get right with the 
law and pay back taxes before receiving relief.
  The Blackburn Amendment would end the DACA program, deporting 
hundreds of thousands of DREAMer young people who were brought to this 
country as children and know no other home.
  These amendments serve as nothing more than poison pills that will 
ruin months of bipartisan work by the Appropriations Committee and 
endanger funding for the very agencies that protect our country from 
terrorists, drug cartels, and organized crime and harm millions of 
immigrants who simply want to get right with the law and a fair, 
transparent path to legalization and earned citizenship.
  The whole world saw the horrific acts of terrorism in Paris and 
France last week which resulted in the deaths of 17 innocent people, 
including 3 police officers, by 4 suspects who are believed to have 
connections with al Qaeda.
  In this time of heightened security concerns, the last thing this 
chamber should contemplate is another fabricated funding crisis.
  The Obama Administration has already announced its support of the 
bill, as introduced, and will sign this must-pass legislation into law 
immediately.
  I call on my colleagues to support the clean passage of the 
underlining legislation, oppose these cynical amendments, and to join 
me in calling for this Congress to take on comprehensive immigration 
reform and fix our broken immigration system once and for all.

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  Ms. LOFGREN. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. DeSANTIS. Madam Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Virginia (Mr. Goodlatte), the chairman of the House Judiciary 
Committee.
  Mr. GOODLATTE. I thank the gentleman for yielding and for the work he 
and Mrs. Roby did on this amendment. I urge my colleagues to support 
the amendment.
  Madam Chair, this amendment simply requires the Department of 
Homeland Security to treat any alien convicted of any offense involving 
domestic violence, sexual abuse, child molestation, or child abuse or 
exploitation as a top priority for immigration enforcement. 
Unfortunately, the current priorities created by the Obama 
administration on November 20, 2014, treat certain aliens convicted of 
domestic violence, convicted of sexual abuse, or convicted of 
exploitation as a secondary priority.
  While aliens convicted of a ``significant misdemeanor,'' such as 
domestic violence, sexual abuse, or exploitation, are deemed a 
secondary priority for removal, they can stay in the United States in 
contravention of duly enacted law if they simply show ``factors'' 
warranting release.
  The amendment corrects these irresponsible policies of the Obama 
administration and ensures that criminal aliens convicted of domestic 
violence and sexual abuse are treated as top priorities for removal.
  For these reasons, I urge my colleagues to support this amendment.
  Ms. LOFGREN. Madam Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
California (Ms. Pelosi), the Democratic leader.
  Ms. PELOSI. Madam Chair, I thank the gentlelady for yielding and for 
her exceptional leadership, as well as that of the ranking member of 
the full committee, Mr. Conyers, and the work of your staff to bring 
the facts to the fore on this subject.
  I rise in opposition to all of these amendments for reasons I spelled 
out for half an hour last night. Not to go into them again, but I want 
to say how disconcerting this is after we have seen the President act 
with authority under the law and also according to precedent of every 
President, Democratic and Republican, since President Eisenhower. That 
is why it is very disturbing to see the Speaker of the House saying 
President Obama has submitted his legacy of lawlessness.
  Legacy of lawlessness. Was President Reagan lawless? Was President 
George Herbert Walker Bush lawless? Was President George W. Bush 
lawless? I never heard him say that about any executive actions taken 
by them.
  I rise in opposition to all of these amendments, specifically, to the 
DeSantis amendment. Opposition is contained in a letter from the 
National Catholic Conference of Bishops. On behalf of the bishops, they 
write to ask that we oppose immigration-related amendments in the bill.
  Specifically to DeSantis, they say:

       Representative DeSantis' immigration amendment would 
     prevent the Department of Homeland Security from implementing 
     its memoranda setting civil immigration enforcement 
     priorities. While presented as a measure that helps domestic 
     violence victims, we fear that it actually would discourage 
     many such victims from reporting abuse. Immigrants face 
     obstacles to reporting crimes that have been perpetrated 
     against them. This amendment would perpetuate this problem.

  So I urge our colleagues to vote ``no'' on all of the amendments, and 
I call to their attention the letter from the bishops urging a ``no'' 
vote on the amendments, which I will submit for the Record.

                                       Committee on Migration,

                                 Washington, DC, January 13, 2015.
       Dear Representative: On behalf of the U.S. Conference of 
     Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Migration, I write to 
     ask that you oppose immigration-related amendments to H.R. 
     240, the Fiscal Year 2015 Department of Homeland Security 
     (DHS) Appropriations Act which are being offered by 
     Representatives Aderholt, Blackburn, and DeSantis, 
     respectively. I urge your opposition to these amendments, 
     which attempt to defund and block implementation of the 
     Administration's executive actions on immigration taken on 
     November 20th to help keep immigrant families with U.S. 
     Citizen and Legal Permanent Resident children together, as 
     well as block continued implementation of the 
     Administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals 
     (DACA) initiative.
       Representative Aderholt's immigration amendment would bar 
     the use of funds for nearly all of the Administration's 
     November 20th Executive Actions on Immigration and undermine 
     numerous Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memos that 
     outline deportation priorities and prosecutorial discretion. 
     Representative Aderholt's amendment would place millions of 
     hard-working immigrant families in peril and perpetuate 
     situations of family separation. In addition, this amendment 
     would upend existing DHS deportation and discretion 
     priorities and force millions of undocumented people to 
     return to living in the shadows to avoid new draconian 
     deportation priorities. Representative Aderholt's amendment 
     would cause immigrant families to suffer great harm and would 
     frustrate the existing administration of immigration laws.
       Representative Blackburn's immigration amendment would 
     effectively repeal the Deferred Action Childhood Arrival 
     (DACA) program by denying funds to new, previously denied, 
     and renewal DACA applications. The amendment would therefore 
     affect hundreds of thousands of hard-working ambitious 
     immigrant children. As you know, DACA has benefited youth who 
     have been able to work and pursue education, thus helping 
     them to reach their potential and contribute to our nation. 
     Forcing these children back into the shadows and exposing 
     them to the threat of deportation would undermine their 
     future contributions to our nation, and treat them as 
     criminals in the only homeland they have ever known.
       Representative DeSantis's immigration amendment would 
     prevent DHS from implementing its memoranda setting civil 
     immigration enforcement priorities. While presented as a 
     measure that helps domestic violence victims, we fear that it 
     actually would discourage many such victims from reporting 
     abuse. Immigrants face obstacles to reporting crimes that 
     have been perpetrated against them. This amendment would 
     perpetuate this problem.
       In our churches and in our parishes, we see firsthand the 
     devastation of family separation and the family breakdown 
     that results from such separation. For this reason, we 
     strongly oppose these amendments and ask that you vote 
     against them. Should any of them be agreed to, we would ask 
     that you oppose the underlying bill. Instead, we urge you to 
     pass just and humane immigration reform legislation that 
     addresses all aspects of our broken immigration system. Such 
     legislation is the best solution to our currently broken 
     system. We welcome the opportunity to work with this Congress 
     to fix our immigration system through comprehensive 
     legislative means. We stand ready to work with the leaders of 
     both parties to protect poor and vulnerable people, promote 
     human life and dignity, and advance the common good.
       Finally, we are deeply disappointed that the version of 
     H.R. 240 being brought to the House floor excludes prolife 
     language that the House has included in its draft Homeland 
     Security appropriations bills in recent years. This provision 
     simply maintains the longstanding ban on use of DHS funds for 
     abortions, a necessary step because DHS funds are no longer 
     covered by the abortion funding ban contained in the 
     Commerce/Justice/Science appropriations bills. We strongly 
     urge that this important provision be restored to the bill 
     before it is taken up by the full House, or that an amendment 
     restoring it be made in order on the House floor.
       Thank you for your consideration of our requests.
           Sincerely,

                               Most Reverend Eusebio Elizondo,

                                      Auxiliary Bishop of Seattle,
                           Chairman, USCCB Committee on Migration.

  Ms. PELOSI. Again, what is disturbing about this is that you may have 
a difference of opinion about immigration or this or that, but don't 
describe the President as lawless and to use the Constitution as the 
basis for this debate when, in fact, the courts have upheld the rights 
of our Presidents to take executive action in relationship to 
protecting immigrants in our country--every President, Democratic and 
Republican, from President Eisenhower to the present.
  I urge a ``no'' vote on all of the amendments, particularly, in this 
case, the DeSantis amendment.
  Mr. DeSANTIS. Madam Chair, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  The President likes to say that he wants to focus all of our 
resources on the criminals, and yet, over the last 2 years, by DHS' own 
figures, this administration has released 66,000 individuals who have 
been criminally convicted in our country and who are illegally in our 
country. The number of crimes and the quality of crimes is stunning: 
some are homicides; some are rapes; some are drug trafficking.
  I think you have seen a record developed over the last several years 
that has put the public safety at risk, so I am perplexed why someone 
would oppose this amendment. If somebody is convicted of molesting a 
child, maybe it doesn't qualify under the highest priority. The 
administration wants to dismiss it as a significant misdemeanor. Why 
would we have any tolerance for child molestation? If you are not in 
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country legally and you get convicted of an offense like that, you 
should be gone.
  We shouldn't even be discussing this. And the fact of the matter is, 
as a prosecutor, you have to make some tough decisions. You may not be 
able to put a young child victim on the stand. You may have problems 
with evidence, and you may have to do a plea to a lesser charge because 
of the family's concerns and because of what that could do to a victim. 
That perpetrator is no less dangerous to our community and to our 
society.
  So I think the people that are going to vote ``no'' on this are 
basically saying we don't want a zero-tolerance policy against child 
molesters and sexual offenders. I don't care what offense it is, if you 
touch a child, you are here illegally, you are gone.
  I urge people to vote in favor of this amendment, and I yield back 
the balance of my time.
  Ms. LOFGREN. Madam Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Maryland (Ms. Edwards).
  Ms. EDWARDS. I thank the gentlewoman for yielding time.
  I will enter in the Record a letter from the National Task Force to 
End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women opposing the DeSantis-
Roby amendment.

         National Task Force To End Sexual and Domestic Violence 
           Against Women,
                                                 January 12, 2015.
       Dear Representative: As the Steering Committee of the 
     National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence 
     (``NTF''), comprised of national leadership organizations 
     advocating on behalf of sexual and domestic violence victims 
     and women's rights, we write in opposition to the Aderholt 
     and DeSantis amendments to the Department of Homeland 
     Security appropriations bill. These amendments are overly 
     broad, sweep large numbers of victims into their scope and 
     ignore the best interests of victims and their children.
       We recently celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the 
     bipartisan Violence Against Women Act (``VAWA''), which has, 
     since it was first enacted, included critical protections for 
     immigrant victims of domestic and sexual violence. The 
     proposed amendments serve to undermine protections from 
     removal for victims of domestic and sexual violence and 
     undercut the spirit of VAWA.
       We strongly urge you to vote NO on the following 
     amendments:


                           DeSantis Amendment

       What it does:
       This amendment prevents ICE from implementing the new 
     detention and deportation priorities set in the November 20, 
     2014 Executive Action memo regarding Policies for the 
     Apprehension, Detention and Removal of Undocumented 
     Immigrants by preventing its implementation.
       This amendment disallows funding to support implementation, 
     administration, enforcement, or carrying out of any policy 
     that does not prioritize enforcement against those with 
     domestic violence, and sexual abuse, and child abuse 
     convictions. In particular, the November 20th guidance 
     recognizes that immigrant victims of domestic violence may be 
     convicted of violence themselves, and the amendment removes 
     DHS discretion to consider the facts underlying the 
     conviction.
       How it affects victims of domestic and sexual violence:
       Victims of domestic violence often do not seek help when 
     they know that the consequences to the perpetrator (for 
     example, a spouse or parent, or perhaps other family member) 
     may result in the perpetrator's deportation. This often takes 
     place due to their financial dependence, and even close 
     relationship to the perpetrator. As a result, this amendment 
     will discourage victims from seeking help, reducing reporting 
     and prosecution of crimes, creating communities that are less 
     safe and in which victims are more likely to endure abuse.
       Immigrant victims are vulnerable to being arrested and 
     prosecuted for domestic violence, even when they are not the 
     primary perpetrator of violence in the relationship. This 
     frequently happens due to language and cultural barriers. 
     Often, victims are desperate to be released and reunited with 
     their children upon arrest and/or during trial. These 
     factors--combined with poor legal counsel, particularly about 
     the immigration consequences of criminal pleas and 
     convictions--have in the past and will likely continue to 
     lead to deportation of wrongly accused victims who may have 
     pled to or been unfairly convicted of domestic violence 
     charges.
       The vast majority of sexual abuse, child exploitation and 
     domestic violence convictions already fall within the highest 
     priorities for enforcement; this amendment removes DHS 
     discretion to consider the needs of victims.


                           Aderholt Amendment

       What it does:
       Among other things, the amendment prevents the use of funds 
     or fees for all of the November 20, 2014 Executive Action 
     mandates by the president, including the renewal and 
     continuation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals 
     (DACA) program for young people who arrived in the United 
     States as children, and hinders the ability to implement the 
     Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) program, 
     which provides protection for parents of U.S. citizen and 
     Legal Permanent Resident children. These programs grant 
     immigrants who are not priorities for removal some protection 
     from removal.
       The amendment also prevents the use of ``funds or fees'' to 
     carry out prior DHS guidance, including ICE Director Morton's 
     prosecutorial discretion memos (2011), USCIS referrals of 
     Notices To Appear (2011), ICE response to Secure Communities 
     Task Force (Apr. 2012), detainers (Dec. 2012), and adjustment 
     of status under visa waiver program (Nov. 2013).
       The amendment prohibits any ``substantially similar'' 
     policy changes to these memos in the future.
       The amendment also prohibits the use of funds or fees to 
     ``grant any Federal benefit'' to any noncitizen pursuant to 
     any of the policy changes in these memos.
       The amendment reinstates the Secure Communities Program.
       Impact on victims of domestic and sexual violence:
       This amendment increases the vulnerability to abuse for 
     immigrants by increasing: (1) fear of deportation and (2) 
     financial dependence on abusers.
       Eliminates DHS prosecutorial discretion to consider the 
     needs of victims of domestic and sexual violence, including 
     the trauma they have experienced, in prioritizing enforcement 
     activities.
       Increases victims fear of deportation as a consequence of 
     reporting crimes committed against them as a result of local 
     law enforcement entanglement with ICE in implementing the 
     Secure Communities Program. As a result, many violent crimes 
     will go unreported.
       We strongly urge members to prioritize the needs of 
     immigrant victims of domestic and sexual violence, and reject 
     these amendments. These recommendations are endorsed by the 
     Immigration subcommittee and the steering committee of the 
     National Taskforce to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, 
     including The Asian Institute on Gender Based Violence, 
     ASISTA Immigration Assistance, Casa de Esperanza: National 
     Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities, Futures 
     Without Violence, National Immigrant Justice Center, the 
     National Network to End Domestic Violence, and the Washington 
     State Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
       If you have any questions, please contact us for further 
     information through Grace Huang, Washington State Coalition 
     Against Domestic Violence or Andrea Carcamo, Casa de 
     Esperanza.

  Ms. EDWARDS. As the founder and former executive director of the 
National Network to End Domestic Violence, I join the network of every 
State domestic violence coalition and the National Task Force to End 
Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women in opposing this amendment.
  The issue really is very simple. Often--too often--in cases of 
domestic violence, law enforcement show up at a home, they can't figure 
out what happened, both parties are arrested, and down the line both 
plead to misdemeanor domestic violence offenses. This happens all the 
time all around the country. For the victim, it may be because she just 
wants to get it out of the way to get back to her children or she has 
been threatened with further violence by her abuser or with her 
immigration status held over her head.
  Whatever the reason, it turns out that in too many of these 
circumstances, no one--not law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, or 
even her attorney, if she is fortunate to have one--tells her that by 
pleading to the misdemeanor, her immigration status is threatened and 
she faces deportation.
  So this is not about fault. It just means that we still have a lot of 
work to do when it comes to domestic violence. It is why we 
reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act in the last Congress.
  Here is the harm. This amendment would prevent immigration 
authorities from looking beneath the surface in circumstances only of 
domestic violence offenses to make absolutely certain that we are not 
victimizing the victim twice by subjecting her to deportation.
  I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this dangerous amendment that 
could result in additional violence and undoing what successive 
Congresses and Presidents, Republicans and Democrats, have done for 20 
years--afford fairness and protection for vulnerable immigrant women 
who are victims of domestic violence.
  And so let's get the facts straight. This is not about shielding 
perpetrators. It is about protecting victims.

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Our immigration authorities deserve to take a second look when it comes 
to domestic violence, and I urge my colleagues to do no harm and vote 
``no'' on the DeSantis-Roby amendment.

                              {time}  1015

  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. DeSantis).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. LOFGREN. Madam Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida will 
be postponed.


                 Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mr. Salmon

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 4 
printed in part B of House Report 114-2.
  Mr. SALMON. Madam Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __. (a) The Congress finds that--
       (1) under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
     (Public Law 111-148), many individuals and businesses are 
     required to purchase health insurance coverage for themselves 
     and their employees;
       (2) individuals who were unlawfully present in the United 
     States who have been granted deferred action under the 
     Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program undertaken by 
     the Executive Branch and who then receive work authorization 
     are exempt from these requirements;
       (3) many United States employers hiring United States 
     citizens or individuals legally present in the United States 
     are required to either offer those persons affordable health 
     insurance or pay a penalty of approximately $3,000 per 
     employee per year; and
       (4) an employer does not have to provide insurance, or in 
     many instances pay a penalty, if they hire individuals who 
     were not lawfully present but who have been granted deferred 
     action under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals 
     Program and work authorization.
       (b) It is the sense of the Congress that--
       (1) this disparate treatment has the unacceptable effect of 
     discouraging the hiring of United States citizens and those 
     in a lawful immigration status in the United States; and
       (2) the Executive Branch should refrain from pursuing 
     policies, such as granting deferred action under the Deferred 
     Action for Childhood Arrivals Program and work authorization 
     to unlawfully present individuals, that disadvantage the 
     hiring of United States citizens and those in a lawful 
     immigration status in the United States.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 27, the gentleman from 
Arizona (Mr. Salmon) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Arizona.
  Mr. SALMON. Madam Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Thompson), the coauthor of this amendment.
  Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Thank you for yielding. Thank you to 
the chairman, and to my colleague from Arizona, Congressman Salmon, for 
your work on this legislation and this amendment.
  Madam Chair, I rise in support of the Salmon-Thompson amendment.
  President Obama's recent expansion of the Deferred Action for 
Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, protects a large number of unlawfully 
present aliens from deportation.
  In addition to constitutional concerns and national security 
implications, Madam Chair, the action poses a range of unintended 
consequences.
  Case in point: the President's policy creates an incentive to hire 
illegal immigrants over lawfully present workers. Illegal aliens who 
are granted deferred action are exempt from being counted under the 
2010 health care law's employer mandate, which requires employers with 
50 or more employees to offer health insurance or pay a penalty.
  Essentially, the President has created a situation where employers 
face a penalty for hiring Americans over illegal aliens.
  Madam Chairman, the President's current deferred action expansion 
promotes the hiring of individuals who have broken the law over the men 
and women who have come through legal channels, worked hard, and played 
by the rules.
  Congressman Salmon and I are proud to offer this commonsense 
amendment. The amendment merely states that it is the sense of Congress 
that this administration should not pursue any actions that put the 
interests of illegal immigrants before U.S. workers.
  I encourage all my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to vote 
``yes'' on the Salmon-Thompson amendment.
  Mr. BECERRA. Madam Chair, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. BECERRA. Madam Chair, I yield myself 2 minutes.
  Madam Chairman, the barbaric killing in Paris last week of 17 
innocent human beings, including two police officers, is a stark 
reminder of the high price we sometimes pay to exercise our freedoms, 
including our freedom of speech.
  Here in this House, we exercise that freedom every day on this floor, 
but that freedom comes with a responsibility. We are all entitled to 
our own opinions, and we can express them here, but we are not entitled 
to our own set of facts.
  This sense of Congress fails in that responsibility. First, it 
misappropriates the facts, but worse, it misrepresents the facts.
  The Affordable Care Act prohibits the precise activity and conduct by 
employers that this sense of Congress says it is trying to prohibit. In 
fact, the Affordable Care Act has explicit language, and I will, for 
the Record, submit 29 U.S. Code, section 218(c), protections for 
employees, which specifically prohibits an employer from discriminating 
against an American citizen who works for that employer for the 
purposes of hiring someone who doesn't have a right to work and, 
therefore, will not get insurance.
  So the worst part of this sense of Congress is that it tries to 
mislead the American people to think something is going on that isn't. 
And if it is going on then, in the time that the gentleman has to push 
his amendment, I would urge him to name a name of an employer who is 
doing this to an American citizen who should be allowed to work.


           29 U.S. Code Sec. 218c--Protections for employees

       (a) Prohibition
       No employer shall discharge or in any manner discriminate 
     against any employee with respect to his or her compensation, 
     terms, conditions, or other privileges of employment because 
     the employee (or an individual acting at the request of the 
     employee) has--
       (1) received a credit under section 36B of title 26 or a 
     subsidy under section 18071 of title 42;
       (2) provided, caused to be provided, or is about to provide 
     or cause to be provided to the employer, the Federal 
     Government, or the attorney general of a State information 
     relating to any violation of, or any act or omission the 
     employee reasonably believes to be a violation of, any 
     provision of this title (or an amendment made by this title);
       (3) testified or is about to testify in a proceeding 
     concerning such violation;
       (4) assisted or participated, or is about to assist or 
     participate, in such a proceeding; or
       (5) objected to, or refused to participate in, any 
     activity, policy, practice, or assigned task that the 
     employee (or other such person) reasonably believed to be in 
     violation of any provision of this title (or amendment), or 
     any order, rule, regulation, standard, or ban under this 
     title (or amendment).
       (b) Complaint procedure
       (1) In general
       An employee who believes that he or she has been discharged 
     or otherwise discriminated against by any employer in 
     violation of this section may seek relief in accordance with 
     the procedures, notifications, burdens of proof, remedies, 
     and statutes of limitation set forth in section 2087(b) of 
     title 15.
       (2) No limitation on rights
       Nothing in this section shall be deemed to diminish the 
     rights, privileges, or remedies of any employee under any 
     Federal or State law or under any collective bargaining 
     agreement. The rights and remedies in this section may not be 
     waived by any agreement, policy, form, or condition of 
     employment.

  Mr. BECERRA. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SALMON. Madam Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Virginia (Mr. Goodlatte), chairman of the full Committee on the 
Judiciary.
  Mr. GOODLATTE. Madam Chairman, I urge my colleagues to support this 
amendment by Representatives Salmon and Thompson.
  The amendment expresses the sense of Congress that U.S. workers 
should not be harmed by President Obama's unilateral executive action 
programs.

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These programs absurdly give American employers a financial incentive 
to hire unlawful aliens over American citizens and legal immigrants.
  The fact is, in many cases, a business now has a $3,000 incentive to 
hire an unlawful immigrant who benefited from the Deferred Action for 
Childhood Arrivals program. This is because, under ObamaCare, many 
businesses face a $3,000 per employee penalty if they do not provide 
health insurance to their workers.
  However, unlawful immigrants granted DACA relief and, most likely, 
those benefiting from President Obama's new deferred action program are 
not eligible for ObamaCare. Thus, in many cases, employers will not 
have to pay this penalty if they hire deferred action recipients rather 
than legal workers.
  It is simply indefensible public policy for the Obama administration 
to give unlawful aliens a leg up over legal workers. Yet, that is the 
result of the President's unilateral actions. I urge my colleagues to 
support this good amendment.
  Mr. BECERRA. Madam Chair, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman 
from New Jersey (Mr. Pascrell), who is on the Ways and Means Committee.
  Mr. PASCRELL. Madam Chair, I just want to report to the other side 
that you are already on retreat. As a party, you have retreated from 
our solemn oaths, camouflaged by pious, empty, pyrrhic acclamations of 
patriotism and liberty.
  These are not stick people you are talking about. These are real 
people. They are not despots. They are not moneychangers. They are not 
felons. They are human equals to you and me.
  You have a bumper sticker mentality without the bumper.
  For years and years, all we heard is ``read the bill.'' Well, we have 
read the bill and, in fact, I helped write the ACA. I am proud of that.
  There is nothing in the ACA or the President's executive order that 
treats people who have temporary status under DACA differently than 
U.S. citizens for the purposes of triggering the employer mandate.
  The whole purpose of this amendment is to play into fears that, by 
allowing immigrants to come out of the shadows and work legally and pay 
taxes, you are undermining American workers. That is a lie. Admit it.
  Nothing in this ACA incentivizes employers to hire undocumented 
immigrants over American citizens. In fact, just the opposite, as you 
heard the speaker before me. Specifically, it prohibits employers from 
firing a citizen employee because they receive a premium tax credit. 
Read the bill.
  My colleagues on the other side of the aisle are simply trying to 
obscure what the President did here with this executive order: provide 
responsible solutions to prevent families from being torn apart even 
further.
  I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment--and have a nice 
retreat.
  Mr. SALMON. Madam Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Chairman, they say sunlight is the best disinfectant. We are 
trying to shed a little sunlight on some of the problems with the 
President's unconstitutional and illegal executive order of last year.
  I am incredulous that the leader of the opposition has now encouraged 
the Members of the opposition to vote, en bloc, against all these 
commonsense amendments defending the American worker, protecting the 
American worker, cracking down on the molesters and sex offenders, and 
making sure that they don't have a haven here in America, and making 
sure that those who want legal immigration are the first and foremost 
that we consider in this process, and that those who cheated the system 
have to get behind those folks that are doing it legally before their 
paperwork can be processed.
  It is incredulous that the other side would oppose such commonsense 
measures that I believe most of America is crying for. People are 
hurting out there. Maybe they haven't gotten the memo, but I think most 
of us have.
  The other thing that is incredulous is that when you hear a lot of 
squealing, you know when you have hit a raw nerve; you know there is 
some truth to what is being spoken.
  This amendment is simply a sense of Congress that we don't give a 
$3,000 benefit to those who have cheated the system, that we don't give 
a $3,000 advantage to them over hardworking, tax-paying American 
citizens who have been out of work for quite some time.
  As we know, President Obama recently issued a series of memos that 
would essentially grant legal status to millions of people residing 
illegally within the borders of the United States. Unfortunately, this 
is not the first time that such action has been taken by this 
administration, and history has a habit of repeating itself.
  Under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA, up to 1.7 million 
individuals were granted legal status and were allowed to cut in line, 
being given preferential treatment over those who respected our laws 
and waited patiently for their immigration cases to be processed.
  Furthermore, while these individuals who were given legal status 
under DACA were initially required to purchase health insurance under 
ObamaCare, they were later exempted from that requirement. With this 
exemption, those given legal status under DACA are not required to 
purchase insurance.
  We just don't want that to happen again, and I would urge the other 
side to stand up for the American worker. That is why we are here.
  Madam Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair will remind Members to refrain from 
improper references to the President.
  Mr. BECERRA. Madam Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New 
York (Mr. Crowley), vice chairman of the House Democratic Caucus.
  Mr. CROWLEY. Madam Chair, I think my Republican colleagues take the 
American people for fools.
  Madam Chair, I lost too many constituents and friends on 9/11. I lost 
people who I loved on 9/11. And in the years since then, New York City 
has been the focus of attempted terror plots too numerous to name.
  Homeland Security funding is something that I take very seriously 
because it is so much a part of a New Yorker's life. And frankly, I 
would expect my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to take it as 
seriously as well.
  But this is not a serious effort by any stretch of the imagination. 
You know what's good for our national security?
  Bringing people out of the shadows so that we know who is in our 
country, focusing our limited enforcement resources on true threats to 
our country and not holding up needed funding for security and law 
enforcement programs to make a political point.
  It is a political point they are trying to make. If my colleagues on 
the other side of the aisle genuinely think our immigration system 
should deport parents instead of true criminals, if you want to destroy 
all our economic gains and throw a sucker punch to our economy by 
deporting 11 million people, then you know what? Bring a bill up on the 
floor, and let's have a real debate on all those issues.
  Don't walk in here and tell me and the American people that this 
garbage belongs in the Homeland Security funding bill. Don't tell the 
American people that. They are not suckers and they are not fools. They 
know what you are doing.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair would ask Members to address their 
remarks to the Chair.
  Mr. BECERRA. Madam Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  I asked if the proponents would name the name of an American who has 
been discriminated against, the name of an employer who has 
discriminated against an American worker. They gave none. This is all 
anecdotal. These are all stories. They don't have anything to do with 
the fact that we need to pass the Homeland Security bill because we are 
jeopardizing the funding for our security.
  Are people tone-deaf to what happened in Paris that they would do 
these types of amendments at a time when we need to support our men and 
women who protect us through Homeland Security?
  This is wrong, and that is why we oppose this senseless sense of 
Congress amendment.
  Madam Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Salmon).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.

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  Mr. SALMON. Madam Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Arizona will 
be postponed.

                              {time}  1030


                 Amendment No. 5 Offered by Mr. Schock

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 5 
printed in part B of House Report 114-2.
  Mr. SCHOCK. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. ___.  It is the sense of the Congress that the 
     Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) 
     should--
       (1) stop putting the interests of aliens who are unlawfully 
     present in the United States ahead of the interests of aliens 
     who are following proper immigration laws and procedures by 
     adjudicating petitions and applications for immigration 
     benefits submitted by aliens unlawfully present in the United 
     States. When USCIS adjudicators and resources are used to 
     adjudicate petitions and applications for aliens who are 
     unlawfully present, the time it takes to process petitions 
     and applications submitted by other aliens is significantly 
     increased and a backlog is created. In addition, it is unfair 
     to use the fees paid by other aliens to cover the costs of 
     adjudicating petitions and applications for aliens unlawfully 
     present in the United States; and
       (2) use the funds available under existing law to improve 
     services and increase the efficiency of the immigration 
     benefits application process for aliens abroad or who are 
     lawfully present in the United States.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 27, the gentleman from 
Illinois (Mr. Schock) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Illinois.
  Mr. SCHOCK. Madam Chair, there are currently 4.4 million people ready 
to enter this country through legal channels. Many of them have been 
waiting for years. They have saved their money. They have filled out 
all of the proper forms. They have paid their fees.
  This amendment is about doing right by them and their families. It is 
about making sure the men and women who play by the rules receive the 
fair treatment that they were promised.
  Congress must send a clear message to the administration and the 
American people that we are committed to fixing what is broken about 
our immigration system but not at the expense of law-abiding 
immigrants.
  In recent weeks, I have worked with The Heritage Foundation to 
identify seven failing programs at the USCIS that are in most need of 
improvement. One of the most egregious examples is of the $792 million 
that the USCIS spent between 2008 and 2012 to create an online system 
for applicants to file forms and pay fees. After $700 million spent and 
4 years of time, only two forms out of 100 and one out of 73 different 
fees can be processed online.
  The administration's repeated inability to build a Web site that 
works--well-documented as it is by now--is compounded by its eagerness 
to bypass the Constitution and break the law.
  Had the President wished to show real leadership on immigration 
reform, he could have used his executive authority to promote greater 
efficiency and cost-saving measures within the system. Had he done so, 
I suspect there would have been overwhelming support in this Congress, 
but, regrettably, that is not the course he chose, and it is why this 
Congress must act.
  We have a responsibility to American taxpayers and to millions of 
immigrants to establish spending priorities at the USCIS, and 
eliminating wasteful spending in the immigration system is an important 
component of our responsibility and is a first great step in achieving 
comprehensive reform. Ensuring that the fees paid by lawful applicants 
are not used to fast-track those who break the law strikes at the heart 
of our oath of office.
  During my time in Congress, the 18th District of Illinois has 
welcomed more than 2,600 new citizens, many of whom have faced a long 
road to get here, but there are still thousands more who are waiting. 
It is not because their paperwork isn't in order, not because they have 
something in their records, and not because of anything other than 
there being a broken system.
  Take Charles from Peoria. He has been trying to get his fiancee to 
join him here in the United States since January of 2012. For more than 
2 years, Charles has waited. He has struggled with the financial 
support requirements. He has been unable to travel to see her. He had 
his application postponed time and time again. Why? Because Charles is 
a quadriplegic on disability.
  Take Danny from Jacksonville, Illinois. He works two shifts at a 
meatpacking facility. He applied and paid for his green card on October 
4 of 2013. His green card was mailed to the wrong address, even though 
it was properly done on his paperwork, and it was in order.
  Danny lost his job because he couldn't show his green card to his 
employer. After many months of lost wages, the USCIS admitted to my 
office and to Danny that they screwed up and made a mistake. Now, more 
than a year later, Danny finally received his green card, and he went 
back to work, but not before our broken system cost him a year's worth 
of wages.
  Madam Chair, these stories could be repeated hundreds of time in my 
congressional office alone--tens of thousands of times across this body 
in Republican and Democrat districts alike. The system is failing our 
constituents, their families, and their loved ones. It is failing 
businesses in our districts. It is failing daycare facilities and major 
manufacturers.
  Yes, Mr. President, the system is broken, but the way to fix a broken 
system is not to overload the system by fast-tracking 5 million more 
people.
  Madam Chair, it is as if these hardworking taxpayers--these 
hardworking people--are sitting at a toll booth.
  Mr. CARTER of Texas. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. SCHOCK. Madam Chair, how much time is remaining?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Illinois has 15 seconds 
remaining.
  Mr. SCHOCK. I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. LOFGREN. Madam Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from California is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. LOFGREN. I yield myself 2 minutes.
  Madam Chair, this amendment is premised on a mistake in the 
understanding of how USCIS actually works. Here is a fact that some 
people may not know: the USCIS is funded not by the taxpayers, it is 
funded by the fees of the applicants.
  The amendment seems to assume that, if you are out of status, 
somehow, somebody else is paying for you--the taxpayers or some other 
applicant. That is not the case. Each applicant pays enough money to 
cover the cost of processing his own fee, and it does not delay others.
  What this amendment would do would not just deal with DACA 
applicants; it would impact people whom I don't think we want to delay 
in terms of the processing of their petitions. For example, people who 
are victims of torture can come to the United States and make a case--a 
plea--for political asylum. They file petitions to do that. This 
amendment would say that their petitions can't be heard.
  There are people who are victims of domestic violence. We created a 
visa category that allows domestic violence victims to petition so that 
they can be free to leave their abusers. Those petitions could not be 
heard in a timely manner.
  Victims of sex trafficking are eligible for a T visa. That is 
something we created in law. According to this amendment, people who 
apply--sex trafficking victims--would not be eligible to have their 
petitions processed in a timely manner.
  Here is something else: most of the petitions that are adjudicated 
are family-based. If you have your American citizen daughter marry 
somebody from another country, she can petition so that her husband can 
become a legal resident of the United States. If that husband is out of 
status, that petition would not be petitioned.
  I don't think we want to do what this amendment suggests we should 
do.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SCHOCK. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Ms. LOFGREN. Madam Chair, I yield for a unanimous consent request to 
the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney).
  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Madam Chair, I am in opposition 
to this amendment and to others who play politics with the security and 
safety of America.
  Madam Chair, this bill plays politics with the security and safety of 
America while holding up vital investments that will create jobs.
  The House GOP refused to take action on immigration reform last year, 
and now they're trying to make up for that mistake by attaching poison 
pill amendments to the bill that funds homeland security.
  They accuse the President of being lawless, but they know the real 
problem is their own failure to offer constructive solutions to fix our 
immigration system.
  We should be debating comprehensive immigration reform, not hosting a 
politically motivated charade that will harm our ability to deter, 
detect, and defend from a terrorist attack.
  This could not be more poorly timed.
  Last week our strong ally, France, was attacked and terrorized. 
People died.
  I am deeply concerned about the impact this delayed funding may have 
on my own congressional district.
  New York City continues to remain a high risk area and the City 
relies on the federal funds it receives to protect critical 
infrastructure, sustain anti-terrorism programs, and enhance emergency 
preparedness and response.
  These not only protect our people but they put people to work.
  On behalf of New Yorkers I plead with my colleagues to stop holding 
hostage this critically important funding.
  The inclusion of these dangerous amendments poisons the bill and 
threatens our crucial homeland security needs and hurts our economy.
  We must reject these amendments and pass a clean Homeland Security 
funding bill.
  Ms. LOFGREN. Madam Chair, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman 
from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee), my colleague and compatriot on the 
Judiciary Committee.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. I thank the gentlewoman for her leadership and the 
ranking member for his leadership.
  Madam Chair, this is a full force assault on immigrants. It is an 
assault on the integrity of this Nation which was built upon the 
investment and the love of this country by immigrants from all over the 
world.
  As I look to the landscape of what we now confront--2,000 dead in 
Nigeria by Boko Haram, little girls dressed with suicide bombs, and 
Homeland Security being held hostage by an assault on immigration--let 
me say to you that the Constitution has given the President the 
authority under the ``take care'' provision, so this assault of 
amendments that is trying to chip away at these executive actions is a 
false premise in order to attack the ideas and the values of this 
Nation.
  In my own State, if the actions of the President's are in place, we 
will gain $8.2 billion in gross domestic product and $19.2 billion over 
10 years, a decade. Do you think we need the underlying amendment or 
amendments? Pastors and religious leaders--the Episcopal bishops--have 
indicated that they support the executive actions. The Catholic bishops 
support the executive actions.
  The Aderholt amendment wants to attack those young DREAMers who want 
to invest and young soldiers. The Blackburn amendment wants to take 
away, if you will, the childhood arrivals.
  Mr. DeSantis wants to misrepresent to victims of human trafficking 
and domestic violence. Mr. Salmon, in his amendment, wants to suggest 
that workers are being hired over American workers; then Mr. Schock 
wants to ignore the investment of this particular language into this 
Nation.
  Let me end by saying this is an attack on immigrants. Let's oppose 
all of these.
  Mr. SCHOCK. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. LOFGREN. Madam Chair, I believe I have the right to close, so I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Illinois has the right to close. 
The gentleman has 15 seconds remaining.
  Ms. LOFGREN. Madam Chair, I yield the balance of my time to the 
gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers), the ranking member of our full 
committee.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Michigan is recognized for 1\1/
2\ minutes.
  Mr. CONYERS. Madam Chair and members of the committee, I oppose the 
Schock amendment for many of the numerous reasons that have already 
been stated by our colleagues, but I want to make sure that we are all 
perfectly clear on what is occurring on the House floor today.
  The majority is, unfortunately, playing politics with the lives, 
safety, and security of the American people. The ideologues are holding 
funding hostage for the Homeland Security Department here today. That 
is not right. They would rather deport DREAMers--the kids and their 
parents--rather than fund the Department of Homeland Security.
  In the wake of the recent Paris tragedy, we need to remain vigilant 
with smart enforcement policies that protect Americans. The Department 
of Homeland Security plays a central role in our fight against terror, 
and we must fully fund the efforts as soon as possible. We should not 
be attaching poison pill amendments to this important legislation.
  I urge all of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to really 
join us and govern with a sense of far more responsibility.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  The gentleman from Illinois is recognized for 15 seconds.
  Mr. SCHOCK. Madam Chair, I yield the balance of my time to the 
distinguished gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Boehner), my friend.
  Mr. BOEHNER. Let me thank my colleague for yielding, and let me thank 
all of my colleagues who have worked to put this bill together.
  Madam Chair, today, I rise--and the House rises--to support and 
defend our Constitution. We do not take this action lightly; but, 
simply, there is no alternative. This is not a dispute between the 
parties or even between the branches of our government.
  This executive overreach is an affront to the rule of law and to the 
Constitution itself. I appreciate all of the efforts of those working 
to fix our broken immigration system, especially since I am one of 
them.
  What we are dealing with is a President who has ignored the people, 
who has ignored the Constitution, and even his own past statements. In 
fact, on at least 22 occasions, he said he did not have the authority 
to do what he has done.
  Before he became President, on March 31, 2008, the President said: 
``I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that 
we're facing right now have to do with the President trying to . . . 
not go through Congress at all, and that's what I intend to reverse 
when I'm President.''
  On May 19, 2008, the President said, ``I believe in the Constitution, 
and I will obey the Constitution of the United States.''
  After he was President, on May 5, 2010, the President said, ``Anybody 
who tells you . . . that I can wave a magic wand and make it happen 
hasn't been paying attention to how this town works.''

                              {time}  1045

  On July 1, 2010, the President said: ``There are those . . . who have 
argued passionately that we should . . . at least ignore the laws on 
the books . . . I believe such an indiscriminate approach would be both 
unwise and unfair.''
  On October 14, 2010, the President said: ``I do have an obligation to 
make sure that I am following some of the rules. I can't simply ignore 
laws that are out there.''
  On October 25, 2010, the President said: ``I am President. I am not 
king. I can't do these things just by myself. . . . I can't just make 
the laws up by myself.''
  On March 28, 2011, the President said: ``America is a nation of laws, 
which means I, as the President, am obligated to enforce the law.''
  On April 20, 2011, the President said: ``I can't solve this problem 
by myself. . . . I can't do it by myself.''
  On April 29, 2011, the President said: ``Some here wish that I could 
just bypass Congress and change the law myself. But that's not how 
democracy works.''

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  On May 10, 2011, the President said: ``They wish I could just bypass 
Congress and change the law myself. But that's not how a democracy 
works.''
  On July 25, 2011, the President said: ``The idea of doing things on 
my own is very tempting. . . . But that's not how our system works. 
That's not how our democracy functions. That's not how our Constitution 
is written.''
  On September 28, 2011, the President said: ``We live in a democracy. 
You have to pass bills through the legislature, and then I can sign 
it.''
  On September 20, 2012, the President said: ``What I've always said 
is, as the head of the executive branch, there's a limit to what I can 
do.''
  On October 16, 2012, the President said: ``We're . . . a nation of 
laws. . . . And I've done everything that I can on my own.''
  On January 30, 2013, the President said: ``I'm not a king. I am the 
head of the executive branch of government. I'm required to follow the 
law.''
  On January 30, 2013, the President also said: ``I'm not a king. You 
know, my job as the head of the executive branch ultimately is to carry 
out the law.''
  On February 14, 2013, the President said: ``The problem is that I'm 
the President of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United 
States.''
  On July 16, 2013, the President said: ``I think that it is very 
important for us to recognize that the way to solve this problem has to 
be legislative.''
  On September 17, 2013, the President said: ``My job in the executive 
branch is supposed to be to carry out the laws that are passed. . . . 
But if we start broadening that, then essentially I would be ignoring 
the law.''
  On November 25, 2013, the President said: ``The easy way out is to 
try to yell and pretend like I can do something by violating our laws. 
. . . That's not our tradition.''
  On March 6, 2014, the President said: ``And I cannot ignore those 
laws any more than I could ignore . . . any of the other laws that are 
on the books.''
  And on August 6, 2014, the President said: ``I'm bound by the 
Constitution; I'm bound by separation of powers.''
  To think that the President of the United States actually studied 
constitutional law is one thing. But he didn't just learn 
constitutional law, he taught it as well. But now his actions suggest 
that he has forgotten what these words even mean.
  Enough is enough. By their votes last November, the people made clear 
that they wanted more accountability from this President; and by our 
votes here today, we will heed their will, and we will keep our oath to 
protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.
  Mr. SCHOCK. I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Schock).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. CONYERS. Madam Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois 
will be postponed.


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings 
will now resume on those amendments printed in part B of House Report 
114-2 on which further proceedings were postponed, in the following 
order:
  Amendment No. 1 by Mr. Aderholt of Alabama.
  Amendment No. 2 by Mrs. Blackburn of Tennessee.
  Amendment No. 3 by Mr. DeSantis of Florida.
  Amendment No. 4 by Mr. Salmon of Arizona.
  Amendment No. 5 by Mr. Schock of Illinois.
  The Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for an electronic 
vote on amendment No. 2, and will reduce to 2 minutes the minimum time 
for any electronic vote on the remaining amendments.


                Amendment No. 1 Offered by Mr. Aderholt

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Alabama 
(Mr. Aderholt) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 237, 
noes 190, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 29]

                               AYES--237

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis, Rodney
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Emmer
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     MacArthur
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Turner
     Upton
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NOES--190

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Ashford
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle (PA)
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu (CA)
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Denham
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Doyle (PA)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hastings
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu (CA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley

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     Rangel
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Duckworth
     Garamendi
     Loebsack
     Nunnelee
     Ryan (OH)
     Visclosky

                              {time}  1115

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


               Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mrs. Blackburn

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from 
Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) on which further proceedings were postponed 
and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 218, 
noes 209, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 30]

                               AYES--218

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis, Rodney
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Emmer
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nugent
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Turner
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NOES--209

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle (PA)
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu (CA)
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Doyle (PA)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Gibson
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Hastings
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu (CA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     MacArthur
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     McSally
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     Nunes
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Reichert
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Upton
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Duckworth
     Garamendi
     Loebsack
     Nunnelee
     Ryan (OH)
     Scott, David

                              {time}  1124

  Mr. COSTELLO of Pennsylvania changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. DeSantis

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida 
(Mr. DeSantis) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 278, 
noes 149, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 31]

                               AYES--278

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bera
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carney
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Cicilline
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Cook
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     Delaney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Emmer
     Esty
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins
     Hill
     Himes
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Kelly (PA)
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     Knight
     Kuster
     Labrador

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     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Langevin
     Latta
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lynch
     MacArthur
     Maloney, Sean
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Polis
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Speier
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NOES--149

     Adams
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle (PA)
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu (CA)
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle (PA)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hastings
     Heck (WA)
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu (CA)
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Duckworth
     Garamendi
     Loebsack
     Murphy (FL)
     Nunnelee
     Ryan (OH)

                              {time}  1128

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Mr. MURPHY of Florida. Madam Chair, on rollcall No. 31, had I been 
present, I would have voted ``yes.''


                 Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mr. Salmon

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Arizona 
(Mr. Salmon) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 253, 
noes 171, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 32]

                               AYES--253

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bera
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Emmer
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lynch
     MacArthur
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Ruppersberger
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Walz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NOES--171

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle (PA)
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu (CA)
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Doyle (PA)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hastings
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu (CA)
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Rush
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

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                             NOT VOTING--9

     Cole
     Duckworth
     Garamendi
     Loebsack
     Nunnelee
     Payne
     Rogers (AL)
     Ryan (OH)
     Smith (MO)

                              {time}  1133

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Madam Chair, on rollcall No. 32 I was unable 
to get to the well before the 2 minute vote closed. Had I been present, 
I would have voted ``yes.''
  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Madam Chair, on rollcall No. 32 I was 
unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.''


                 Amendment No. 5 Offered by Mr. Schock

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois 
(Mr. Schock) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 260, 
noes 167, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 33]

                               AYES--260

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bera
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Emmer
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Kelly (PA)
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lynch
     MacArthur
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Ruppersberger
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Walz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NOES--167

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Amash
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle (PA)
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu (CA)
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle (PA)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hastings
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu (CA)
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Duckworth
     Garamendi
     Loebsack
     Nunnelee
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)

                              {time}  1138

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The Acting CHAIR. There being no further amendments, under the rule, 
the Committee rises.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Ms. 
Foxx) having assumed the chair, Mrs. Black, Acting Chair of the 
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, reported that 
that Committee, having had under consideration 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, and, 
pursuant to House Resolution 27, she reported the bill back to the 
House with sundry further amendments adopted in the Committee of the 
Whole.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is 
ordered.
  Is a separate vote demanded on any further amendment reported from 
the Committee of the Whole? If not, the Chair will put them en gros.
  The amendments were agreed to.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third 
reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.


                           Motion to Recommit

  Mr. ISRAEL. Madam Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?
  Mr. ISRAEL. I am in its current form.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Israel moves to recommit the bill H.R. 240 to the 
     Committee on Appropriations with instructions to report the 
     same back to the House forthwith with the following 
     amendment:
       Page 2, line 10, strike the dollar amount and insert 
     ``$129,573,000''.
       Page 37, line 20, strike the dollar amount and insert 
     ``$1,503,000,000''.
       Page 37, line 22, strike the dollar amount and insert 
     ``$468,500,000''.
       Page 38, line 8, strike the dollar amount and insert 
     ``$601,500,000''.
       Strike all after section 578, before the short title.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New York is recognized 
for 5 minutes.
  Mr. ISRAEL. Madam Speaker, this is the final amendment to the bill. 
It will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the 
bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as amended.
  Madam Speaker, last week terrorists struck France, reminding us every 
day

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that we must be vigilant and every day we must be prepared. Madam 
Speaker, I represent Long Island, New York. Hundreds of my constituents 
were killed on 9/11. Almost every day, another recovery worker from 
Ground Zero is losing his or her life all these years later.
  On that day, on 9/11, those of us who were in this body, as the sun 
set over Washington, we took to the steps. We held hands and we sang 
``God Bless America.'' We committed ourselves to working together to 
strengthen our homeland security, not as Republicans, not as Democrats, 
but as Members of Congress whose constituents expect us to keep them 
safe--whose constituents expect us to put aside whatever disagreements 
we have on whatever other issues there may be and at least agree on 
their fundamental right to be safe. That is the expectation.
  And now, Madam Speaker, we have a bill that should not be 
controversial, that should fund our homeland security, but it has been 
turned into a divisive political strategy on immigration.

                              {time}  1145

  Madam Speaker, let's face it. This bill is not about homeland 
security; this bill is about Republican political security. It is an 
injustice to those who suffered on 9/11 and still remember that.
  Members are entitled to whatever view they may have on the 
President's executive order. They are entitled to whatever view they 
may have on immigration. They are entitled to votes on those issues.
  But to force those views on a bill that funds grants to first 
responders, that helps those first responders hire additional personnel 
and purchase protective equipment, that assists our State and local 
governments in preventing and responding to terrorist attacks and other 
disasters, that secures essential cyber networks, that simply puts ugly 
politics ahead of the safety of the American people.
  This bill goes too far. For the first time in history, they are 
holding our security hostage to the politics of immigration.
  My motion gives every Member here a fundamental choice. It allows you 
to pursue whatever agenda you may have on immigration without 
undermining our homeland security. It would ensure passage of a clean 
Homeland Security bill, with an additional $3 million for fusion 
centers.
  Madam Speaker, this is The 9/11 Commission Report, the report that 
every Member of Congress said that we would heed and pay attention to, 
that we would not allow politics to be injected into. This report calls 
for fusion centers, which are located in every State, to gather, 
receive, analyze, and share threat information among Federal, State, 
and tribal law enforcement and other public safety partners.
  Unity of effort and information sharing, this report says, is a key 
necessity in protecting our homeland; and our fusion center networks 
are critical in our response to that recommendation.
  This motion to recommit makes a further investment in these fusion 
centers, so that we don't have a repeat of what happened in France a 
week ago.
  This is the choice, Madam Speaker. It is clear, and it is stark. You 
can vote ``yes'' on this motion to recommit and strengthen fusion 
centers, or you can vote ``no'' and have weakened them. How will you 
explain your vote ``no'' if a disaster occurs?
  You can vote ``yes'' and stand for full and immediate funding of DHS 
without Washington politics, or you can vote ``no'' and tell your 
constituents that being against immigration is more important to you 
than being for their homeland security. How will you explain that 
``no'' vote to them if disaster occurs again?
  Republicans are saying that anti-immigration riders on this bill are 
part of a political compromise. Madam Speaker, we all understand 
compromise, we all support compromise, but homeland security is the 
last thing in this body that should be subject to a political 
compromise--not after the attacks on France, not after 9/11 when we 
pledged to keep the American people safe, not after we stood on the 
steps of this building committing ourselves to bipartisan cooperation 
and to do the right thing for our homeland security.
  Do the right thing, my colleagues, and vote for this motion to 
recommit and take the politics, the ugly politics, out of keeping the 
American people safe.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CARTER of Texas. Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to the 
motion to recommit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CARTER of Texas. Madam Speaker, may I remind my colleague from 
New York that we put $300 million in those fusion centers in the bill.
  At this time, because this is clearly primarily about the amendments 
that are on this bill, I yield to the gentleman from South Carolina 
(Mr. Gowdy).
  Mr. GOWDY. Madam Speaker, I thank his honor.
  President Obama announced one of the largest extraconstitutional 
power grabs ever by a Chief Executive. He declared unilaterally that 
almost 5 million undocumented aliens will receive deferred action under 
some newfangled definition of ``prosecutorial discretion,'' Madam 
Speaker.
  Not only that, not only escaping consequences, he has decided to 
bestow benefits such as work authorization and immigration benefits--
this, Madam Speaker, despite the fact that the very same President over 
20 different times said he lacked the power to do what he just did, and 
he repeatedly said he is not a king.
  Now, Madam Speaker, his position may have changed after the election, 
I hasten to add, but the Constitution has not. That document is clear, 
time-tested, and true, and it says that this body passes laws, and it 
is the responsibility of the Chief Executive, Madam Speaker, to make 
sure that those laws are faithfully enforced.
  If this President's unilateral extraconstitutional acts are not 
stopped, Madam Speaker, future Presidents will no doubt expand that 
power of the executive branch and threaten the constitutional 
equilibrium.
  But, Madam Speaker, this is not a fight between Republicans and 
Democrats; it is not even a fight over immigration reform. This is a 
fight over whether this branch of government will ever find the courage 
to stand up for itself.
  The same document, the same document that this and all Presidents 
swear to defend, gives this body certain tools, tools like the power of 
the purse. It is about damn time we used that tool.
  I would ask you to oppose this motion to recommit and support the 
underlying bill.
  Mr. CARTER of Texas. Madam Speaker, I thank my friend from the 
Judiciary Committee.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is 
ordered on the motion to recommit.
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.
  Mr. ISRAEL. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 5-
minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by a 5-minute 
vote on the passage of the bill.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 184, 
nays 244, not voting 5, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 34]

                               YEAS--184

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Ashford
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle (PA)
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu (CA)
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle (PA)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hastings
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating

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     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu (CA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--244

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Emmer
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     MacArthur
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Duckworth
     Garamendi
     Loebsack
     Nunnelee
     Ryan (OH)

                              {time}  1157

  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  Under clause 10 of rule XX, the yeas and nays are ordered.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 236, 
nays 191, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 35]

                               YEAS--236

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis, Rodney
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Emmer
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     MacArthur
     Marchant
     Marino
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Peterson
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Turner
     Upton
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NAYS--191

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Amash
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle (PA)
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu (CA)
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Denham
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Doyle (PA)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hastings
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu (CA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Massie
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Duckworth
     Garamendi
     Loebsack
     McDermott
     Nunnelee
     Ryan (OH)

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                              {time}  1204

  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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