[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 144 (Monday, August 9, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S6161]
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SA 2865. Mr. TILLIS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 14, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal
years 2023 through 2031; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:
At the end of title III, add the following:
SEC. 3__. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO GIVING THE
STATE DEPARTMENT ACCESS TO ALL TERRORISM
RECORDS AND DATABASES FOR THE PURPOSE OF
DETERMINING IF A VISA APPLICANT POSES A
SECURITY THREAT, REQUIRING ALL VISA APPLICANTS
TO SUBMIT TO BIOMETRIC AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SCREENING AGAINST TERRORIST WATCH LISTS OR
OTHER DATABASES MAINTAINED BY THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT, AND REQUIRING ALL CONSULAR OFFICES,
PORT INSPECTORS, LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND
TERRORIST SCREENING DATABASES TO BE NOTIFIED
ANY TIME A FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL'S VISA IS
REVOKED.
The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution,
and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or
more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between
the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to giving
the State Department access to all terrorism records and
databases for the purpose of determining if a visa applicant
poses a security threat, requiring all visa applicants to
submit to biometric and biographical screening against
terrorist watch lists or other databases maintained by the
U.S. government, and requiring all consular offices, port
inspectors, law enforcement agencies and terrorist screening
databases to be notified any time a foreign individual's visa
is revoked by the amounts provided in such legislation for
those purposes, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of
fiscal years 2022 through 2026 or the period of the total of
fiscal years 2022 through 2031.
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