[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 169 (Thursday, October 24, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S6165]
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  SA 1068. Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Hirono, and 
Mrs. Feinstein) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 948 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 3055, making 
appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, 
and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and 
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place, insert the following:
       Sec. ___. (a) On receipt of a written request by the chair, 
     ranking member, or vice chair of an appropriate committee of 
     Congress for an investigative report relating to an alien (as 
     defined in section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality 
     Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)) for whom a private bill to provide 
     immigration relief has been introduced in the Senate or the 
     House of Representatives during the 116th Congress, the 
     Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall 
     immediately stay the removal of the alien.
       (b) A stay of removal under subsection (a) shall remain in 
     effect until March 15, 2021.
       (c) This section shall take effect as if enacted on January 
     3, 2019.
       (d) In this section, the term ``appropriate committee of 
     Congress'' means--
       (1) the Committee on the Judiciary and the Subcommittee on 
     Border Security and Immigration of the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on the Judiciary and the Subcommittee on 
     Immigration and Citizenship of the House of Representatives.
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