[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 145 (Tuesday, August 10, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S6416]
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SA 3817. Mr. PADILLA 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. 3004. RESERVE FUND RELATING TO IMPROVING THE ASYLUM
PROCESS.
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
improving the asylum process, which may include increasing
funding for additional immigration judges and asylum
officers, case management assistance and legal orientation
for migrants, reducing the immigration court backlog for
asylum cases, ensuring due process for asylum applicants, or
increasing funding for U.S. Customs and Border Protection
officers to process migrants and apprehend traffickers, by
the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over the period of the total of fiscal years 2022 through
2031.
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