[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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