[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 92 (Wednesday, June 10, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4034-S4035]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1977. Mr. WHITEHOUSE (for himself and Mrs. Shaheen) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. 
McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for 
military construction, and for defense activities of the

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Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for 
such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

       At the end of section 1227, before the end quote and final 
     period, insert the following:
       ``(17) Report informing the processing time for 
     applicants.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
     enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 2016, the Secretary of State, in consultation 
     with the Secretary of Homeland Security, to shall submit a 
     report to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate, the 
     Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of 
     the Senate, the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, the 
     Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, the Committee on 
     Armed Services of the House of Representatives, the Committee 
     on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives, the 
     Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, 
     and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives that includes--
       ``(A) the number of applicants in the `administrative 
     processing' phase of the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa 
     application process, broken down by month, during the most 
     recent 12-month period;
       ``(B) the shortest and longest period that an application 
     described in subparagraph (A) has been in such phase; and
       ``(C) a description of the steps that the Department of 
     State and the Department of Homeland Security have taken to 
     reduce the length of the administrative processing phase, 
     while maintaining adequate security review and screening of 
     such applications.
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