[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 25, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1931-S1932]
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  SA 807. Mr. CASSIDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 11, setting forth the 
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 
2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 
years 2017 through 2025; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the end of subtitle A of title IV, add the following:

     SEC. 4_. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST USING CERTAIN FUNDS TO 
                   PROCESS APPLICATIONS FOR IMMIGRATION BENEFITS.

       (a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate 
     to consider any bill,

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     joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the 
     Houses, or conference report (except measures within the 
     jurisdiction of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate 
     and Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives) that would permit the Secretary of Homeland 
     Security or any other Federal official to use funds to 
     process and adjudicate immigration benefit applications for 
     any other purpose other than to process and adjudicate that 
     same type of immigration benefit application.
       (b) Immigration Benefit Application.--In this section, the 
     term ``immigration benefit application'' means any 
     application or petition to confer, certify, change, adjust, 
     or extend any status granted under the Immigration and 
     Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.).
       (c) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or 
     suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-
     fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative 
     vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly 
     chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of 
     the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under 
     subsection (a).
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