[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 159 (Friday, September 29, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H4870-H4898]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS AND BORDER SECURITY ENHANCEMENT ACT, 2024

  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 741, I 
call up the bill (H.R. 5525) making continuing appropriations for 
fiscal year 2024, and for other purposes, and ask for its immediate 
consideration in the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Bost). Pursuant to House Resolution 741, 
the amendments printed in House Report 118-230 are adopted, and the 
bill, as amended, is considered read.
  The text of the bill is as follows:-

                               H.R. 5525

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Spending Reduction and 
     Border Security Act''.

     SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

       The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
Sec. 3. References.

            DIVISION A--CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2024

                       DIVISION B--OTHER MATTERS

Sec. 101. Statutory PAYGO scorecards.
Sec. 102. Senate PAYGO scorecards.
Sec. 103. Classification of budgetary effects.

                      DIVISION C--BORDER SECURITY

Sec. 101. Definitions.
Sec. 102. Border wall construction.
Sec. 103. Strengthening the requirements for barriers along the 
              southern border.
Sec. 104. Border and port security technology investment plan.
Sec. 105. Border security technology program management.
Sec. 106. U.S. Customs and Border Protection technology upgrades.
Sec. 107. U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel.
Sec. 108. Anti-Border Corruption Act reauthorization.
Sec. 109. Establishment of workload staffing models for U.S. Border 
              Patrol and Air and Marine Operations of CBP.
Sec. 110. Operation Stonegarden.
Sec. 111. Air and Marine Operations flight hours.
Sec. 112. Eradication of carrizo cane and salt cedar.
Sec. 113. Border patrol strategic plan.
Sec. 114. U.S. Customs and Border Protection spiritual readiness.
Sec. 115. Restrictions on funding.
Sec. 116. Collection of DNA and biometric information at the border.
Sec. 117. Eradication of narcotic drugs and formulating effective new 
              tools to address yearly losses of life; ensuring timely 
              updates to U.S. Customs and Border Protection field 
              manuals.
Sec. 118. Publication by U.S. Customs and Border Protection of 
              operational statistics.
Sec. 119. Alien criminal background checks.
Sec. 120. Prohibited identification documents at airport security 
              checkpoints; notification to immigration agencies.
Sec. 121. Prohibition against any COVID-19 vaccine mandate or adverse 
              action against DHS employees.
Sec. 122. CBP One app limitation.
Sec. 123. Report on Mexican drug cartels.
Sec. 124. GAO study on costs incurred by States to secure the southwest 
              border.
Sec. 125. Report by Inspector General of the Department of Homeland 
              Security.
Sec. 126. Offsetting authorizations of appropriations.
Sec. 127. Report to Congress on foreign terrorist organizations.
Sec. 128. Assessment by Inspector General of the Department of Homeland 
              Security on the mitigation of unmanned aircraft systems 
              at the southwest border.

        DIVISION D--IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS

              TITLE I--ASYLUM REFORM AND BORDER PROTECTION

Sec. 101. Safe third country.
Sec. 102. Credible fear interviews.
Sec. 103. Clarification of asylum eligibility.
Sec. 104. Exceptions.
Sec. 105. Employment authorization.
Sec. 106. Asylum fees.
Sec. 107. Rules for determining asylum eligibility.
Sec. 108. Firm resettlement.
Sec. 109. Notice concerning frivolous asylum applications.
Sec. 110. Technical amendments.
Sec. 111. Requirement for procedures relating to certain asylum 
              applications.

             TITLE II--BORDER SAFETY AND MIGRANT PROTECTION

Sec. 201. Inspection of applicants for admission.
Sec. 202. Operational detention facilities.

   TITLE III--PREVENTING UNCONTROLLED MIGRATION FLOWS IN THE WESTERN 
                               HEMISPHERE

Sec. 301. United States policy regarding Western Hemisphere cooperation 
              on immigration and asylum.
Sec. 302. Negotiations by Secretary of State.
Sec. 303. Mandatory briefings on United States efforts to address the 
              border crisis.

            TITLE IV--ENSURING UNITED FAMILIES AT THE BORDER

Sec. 401. Clarification of standards for family detention.

                    TITLE V--PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

Sec. 501. Findings.
Sec. 502. Repatriation of unaccompanied alien children.
Sec. 503. Special immigrant juvenile status for immigrants unable to 
              reunite with either parent.
Sec. 504. Rule of construction.

                   TITLE VI--VISA OVERSTAYS PENALTIES

Sec. 601. Expanded penalties for illegal entry or presence.

                  TITLE VII--IMMIGRATION PAROLE REFORM

Sec. 701. Immigration parole reform.
Sec. 702. Implementation.
Sec. 703. Cause of action.
Sec. 704. Severability.

     SEC. 3. REFERENCES.

       Except as expressly provided otherwise, any reference to 
     ``this Act'' contained in any division of this Act shall be 
     treated as referring only to the provisions of that division.

            DIVISION A--CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2024

        The following sums are hereby appropriated, out of any 
     money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and out of 
     applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, and funds, 
     for the several departments, agencies, corporations, and 
     other organizational units of Government for fiscal year 
     2024, and for other purposes, namely:
       Sec. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary, at a rate 
     for operations as provided in the applicable appropriations 
     Acts for fiscal year 2023 and under the authority and 
     conditions provided in such Acts, for continuing projects or 
     activities (including the costs of direct loans and loan 
     guarantees) that are not otherwise specifically provided for 
     in this Act, that were conducted in fiscal year 2023, and for 
     which appropriations, funds, or other authority were made 
     available in the following appropriations Acts:
       (1) The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
     Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023 
     (division A of Public Law 117-328).
       (2) The Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies 
     Appropriations Act, 2023 (division B of Public Law 117-328).
       (3) The Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2023 
     (division C of Public Law 117-328).
       (4) The Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies 
     Appropriations Act, 2023 (division D of Public Law 117-328), 
     except the first proviso under the heading ``Department of 
     Energy--Energy Programs--SPR Petroleum Account''.
       (5) The Financial Services and General Government 
     Appropriations Act, 2023 (division E of Public Law 117-328).
       (6) The Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 
     2023 (division F of Public

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     Law 117-328), including title III of division O of Public Law 
     117-328.
       (7) The Department of the Interior, Environment, and 
     Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023 (division G of 
     Public Law 117-328).
       (8) The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, 
     and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023 
     (division H of Public Law 117-328).
       (9) The Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2023 
     (division I of Public Law 117-328).
       (10) The Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and 
     Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023 (division J of 
     Public Law 117-328).
       (11) The Department of State, Foreign Operations, and 
     Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2023 (division K of 
     Public Law 117-328).
       (12) The Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and 
     Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023 (division L of 
     Public Law 117-328).
       (b) The rate for operations provided by subsection (a) is 
     hereby reduced by 29.88565 percent, so that the total amount 
     of annualized discretionary budget authority for fiscal year 
     2024 is equal to $1,470,979,000,000:  Provided, That the 
     reduction in this subsection shall not apply to the rate for 
     operations provided for the national defense budget function 
     (050), the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of 
     Homeland Security, or amounts designated as being for 
     disaster relief pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
       Sec. 102. (a) No appropriation or funds made available or 
     authority granted pursuant to section 101 for the Department 
     of Defense shall be used for:
       (1) the new production of items not funded for production 
     in fiscal year 2023 or prior years;
       (2) the increase in production rates above those sustained 
     with fiscal year 2023 funds; or
       (3) the initiation, resumption, or continuation of any 
     project, activity, operation, or organization (defined as any 
     project, subproject, activity, budget activity, program 
     element, and subprogram within a program element, and for any 
     investment items defined as a P-1 line item in a budget 
     activity within an appropriation account and an R-1 line item 
     that includes a program element and subprogram element within 
     an appropriation account) for which appropriations, funds, or 
     other authority were not available during fiscal year 2023.
       (b) No appropriation or funds made available or authority 
     granted pursuant to section 101 for the Department of Defense 
     shall be used to initiate multi-year procurements utilizing 
     advance procurement funding for economic order quantity 
     procurement unless specifically appropriated later.
       Sec. 103.  Appropriations made by section 101 shall be 
     available to the extent and in the manner that would be 
     provided by the pertinent appropriations Act.
       Sec. 104.  Except as otherwise provided in section 102, no 
     appropriation or funds made available or authority granted 
     pursuant to section 101 shall be used to initiate or resume 
     any project or activity for which appropriations, funds, or 
     other authority were not available during fiscal year 2023.
       Sec. 105.  Appropriations made and authority granted 
     pursuant to this Act shall cover all obligations or 
     expenditures incurred for any project or activity during the 
     period for which funds or authority for such project or 
     activity are available under this Act.
       Sec. 106.  Unless otherwise provided for in this Act or in 
     the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2024, 
     appropriations and funds made available and authority granted 
     pursuant to this Act shall be available until whichever of 
     the following first occurs:
       (1) The enactment into law of an appropriation for any 
     project or activity provided for in this Act.
       (2) The enactment into law of the applicable appropriations 
     Act for fiscal year 2024 without any provision for such 
     project or activity.
       (3) October 31, 2023.
       Sec. 107.  Expenditures made pursuant to this Act shall be 
     charged to the applicable appropriation, fund, or 
     authorization whenever a bill in which such applicable 
     appropriation, fund, or authorization is contained is enacted 
     into law.
       Sec. 108.  Appropriations made and funds made available by 
     or authority granted pursuant to this Act may be used without 
     regard to the time limitations for submission and approval of 
     apportionments set forth in section 1513 of title 31, United 
     States Code, but nothing in this Act may be construed to 
     waive any other provision of law governing the apportionment 
     of funds.
       Sec. 109.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
     except section 106, for those programs that would otherwise 
     have high initial rates of operation or complete distribution 
     of appropriations at the beginning of fiscal year 2024 
     because of distributions of funding to States, foreign 
     countries, grantees, or others, such high initial rates of 
     operation or complete distribution shall not be made, and no 
     grants shall be awarded for such programs funded by this Act 
     that would impinge on final funding prerogatives.
       Sec. 110.  This Act shall be implemented so that only the 
     most limited funding action of that permitted in the Act 
     shall be taken in order to provide for continuation of 
     projects and activities.
       Sec. 111. (a) For entitlements and other mandatory payments 
     whose budget authority was provided in appropriations Acts 
     for fiscal year 2023, and for activities under the Food and 
     Nutrition Act of 2008, activities shall be continued at the 
     rate to maintain program levels under current law, under the 
     authority and conditions provided in the applicable 
     appropriations Act for fiscal year 2023, to be continued 
     through the date specified in section 106(3).
       (b) Notwithstanding section 106, obligations for mandatory 
     payments due on or about the first day of any month that 
     begins after October 2023 but not later than 30 days after 
     the date specified in section 106(3) may continue to be made, 
     and funds shall be available for such payments.
       Sec. 112.  Amounts made available under section 101 for 
     civilian personnel compensation and benefits in each 
     department and agency may be apportioned up to the rate for 
     operations necessary to avoid furloughs within such 
     department or agency, consistent with the applicable 
     appropriations Act for fiscal year 2023, except that such 
     authority provided under this section shall not be used until 
     after the department or agency has taken all necessary 
     actions to reduce or defer non-personnel-related 
     administrative expenses.
       Sec. 113.  Funds appropriated by this Act may be obligated 
     and expended notwithstanding section 10 of Public Law 91-672 
     (22 U.S.C. 2412), section 15 of the State Department Basic 
     Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2680), section 313 of the 
     Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 
     1995 (22 U.S.C. 6212), and section 504(a)(1) of the National 
     Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3094(a)(1)).
       Sec. 114. (a) Each amount incorporated by reference in this 
     Act that was previously designated by the Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 4001(a)(1) of S. 
     Con. Res. 14 (117th Congress), the concurrent resolution on 
     the budget for fiscal year 2022, and section 1(e) of H. Res. 
     1151 (117th Congress), as engrossed in the House of 
     Representatives on June 8, 2022, is designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985.
       (b) Each amount incorporated by reference in this Act that 
     was previously designated as being for disaster relief 
     pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget in the 
     Senate and section 1(f) of H. Res. 1151 (117th Congress), as 
     engrossed in the House of Representatives on June 8, 2022, is 
     designated by the Congress as being for disaster relief 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of such Act.
       (c) This section shall become effective immediately upon 
     enactment of this Act, and shall remain in effect through the 
     date in section 106(3).
       Sec. 115. (a) Rescissions or cancellations of discretionary 
     budget authority that continue pursuant to section 101 in 
     Treasury Appropriations Fund Symbols (TAFS)--
       (1) to which other appropriations are not provided by this 
     Act, but for which there is a current applicable TAFS that 
     does receive an appropriation in this Act; or
       (2) which are no-year TAFS and receive other appropriations 
     in this Act,
     may be continued instead by reducing the rate for operations 
     otherwise provided by section 101 for such current applicable 
     TAFS, as long as doing so does not impinge on the final 
     funding prerogatives of the Congress.
       (b) Rescissions or cancellations described in subsection 
     (a) shall continue in an amount equal to the lesser of--
       (1) the amount specified for rescission or cancellation in 
     the applicable appropriations Act referenced in section 101 
     of this Act; or
       (2) the amount of balances available, as of October 1, 
     2023, from the funds specified for rescission or cancellation 
     in the applicable appropriations Act referenced in section 
     101 of this Act.
       (c) No later than October 11, 2023, the Director of the 
     Office of Management and Budget shall provide to the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
     and the Senate a comprehensive list of the rescissions or 
     cancellations that will continue pursuant to section 101:  
     Provided, That the information in such comprehensive list 
     shall be periodically updated to reflect any subsequent 
     changes in the amount of balances available, as of October 1, 
     2023, from the funds specified for rescission or cancellation 
     in the applicable appropriations Act referenced in section 
     101, and such updates shall be transmitted to the Committees 
     on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
     Senate upon request.
       Sec. 116.  Amounts made available by section 101 for ``Farm 
     Service Agency--Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund Program 
     Account'' may be apportioned up to the rate for operations 
     necessary to accommodate approved applications for direct and 
     guaranteed farm ownership loans, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 
     1922 et seq.
       Sec. 117.  Amounts made available by section 101 to the 
     Department of Agriculture for ``Rural Housing Service--Rental 
     Assistance Program'' may be apportioned up to the rate for 
     operations necessary to maintain activities as authorized by 
     section 521(a)(2) of the Housing Act of 1949.
       Sec. 118.  Section 260 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 
     1946 (7 U.S.C. 1636i) and section 942 of the Livestock 
     Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999 (7 U.S.C. 1635 note; Public 
     Law 106-78) shall be applied by substituting the date 
     specified in section 106(3) of this Act for ``September 30, 
     2023''.
       Sec. 119.  Notwithstanding sections 102 and 104 of this 
     Act, amounts made available by

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     section 101(3) for the Department of Defense may be 
     apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to 
     facilitate the programs and activities set forth in H.R. 
     4365, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024, 
     reported by the House Committee on Appropriations on June 27, 
     2023, subject to the terms and conditions therein.
       Sec. 120.  Notwithstanding sections 102 and 104 of this 
     Act, amounts made available by section 101 to the Department 
     of Defense for ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy'' shall be 
     available for the procurement of one Columbia Class 
     Submarine.
       Sec. 121.  During the period covered by this Act, section 
     714(b)(2)(B) of title 10, United States Code, shall be 
     applied by substituting ``four years'' for ``two years''.
       Sec. 122.  In addition to amounts otherwise provided by 
     section 101, amounts are provided for ``Department of 
     Energy--Energy Programs--Nuclear Energy'' at a rate for 
     operations of $220,000,000:  Provided, That amounts are 
     provided for necessary expenses related to Risk Reduction for 
     Future Demonstrations at a rate for operations of 
     $120,000,000 and Advanced Nuclear Fuel Availability at a rate 
     for operations of $100,000,000.
       Sec. 123.  Amounts made available by section 101 for 
     ``Small Business Administration--Business Loans Program 
     Account'' may be apportioned up to the rate for operations 
     necessary to accommodate increased demand for commitments for 
     general business loans authorized under paragraphs (1) 
     through (35) of section 7(a) of the Small Business Act (15 
     U.S.C. 636(a)), for commitments to guarantee trust 
     certificates authorized by section 5(g) of the Small Business 
     Act (15 U.S.C. 634(g)), for commitments to guarantee loans 
     under section 503 of the Small Business Investment Act of 
     1958 (15 U.S.C. 697), and for commitments to guarantee loans 
     for debentures under section 303(b) of the Small Business 
     Investment Act of 1958 (15 U.S.C. 683(b)).
       Sec. 124.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
     except section 106, the District of Columbia may expend local 
     funds made available under the heading ``District of 
     Columbia--District of Columbia Funds'' for such programs and 
     activities under the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 
     2023 (title IV of division E of Public Law 117-328) at the 
     rate set forth in the Fiscal Year 2024 Local Budget Act of 
     2023 (D.C. Bill 25-161), as modified as of the date of 
     enactment of this Act.
       Sec. 125.  Amounts made available by section 101 to the 
     Department of Homeland Security under the heading ``Federal 
     Emergency Management Agency--Disaster Relief Fund'' may be 
     apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to carry 
     out response and recovery activities under the Robert T. 
     Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
     U.S.C. 5121 et seq.).
       Sec. 126.  Amounts provided by section 101 shall not be 
     made available to utilize the U.S. Customs and Border 
     Protection CBP One Application, or any successor application, 
     to facilitate the parole of any alien into the United States.
       Sec. 127. (a) Amounts provided by section 101 shall not be 
     made available to transport aliens unlawfully present in, 
     paroled into, or inadmissible to the United States into the 
     interior of the United States for purposes other than 
     enforcement of the immigration laws (as such term is defined 
     in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
     U.S.C. 1101)).
       (b) The limitation under subsection (a) shall not apply 
     with respect to amounts made available to transport 
     unaccompanied alien children (as such term is defined in 
     section 462 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
     279)).
       Sec. 128.  Amounts provided by section 101 shall not be 
     made available to issue any employment authorization document 
     or similar document to any alien whose application for asylum 
     in the United States has been denied, or who is convicted of 
     a Federal or State crime while his or her application for 
     asylum in the United States is pending.
       Sec. 129.  Amounts provided by section 101 shall not be 
     made available to obligate, expend, or transfer to another 
     Federal agency, board, or commission to be used to dismantle, 
     demolish, remove, or damage existing United States-Mexico 
     physical barriers at any location where such barriers have 
     been constructed as of the date of enactment of this Act 
     unless such barrier is simultaneously being repaired or 
     replaced.
       Sec. 130.  Amounts provided by section 101 shall not be 
     made available to implement, administer, or otherwise carry 
     out the activities and policies described in the memorandum 
     issued by the Secretary of Homeland Security on September 30, 
     2021, entitled ``Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil 
     Immigration Law'' or described in the memorandum issued by 
     Kerry Doyle, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Principal 
     Legal Advisor on April 3, 2022, entitled ``Guidance to OPLA 
     Attorneys Regarding the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Laws 
     and the Exercise of 20 Prosecutorial Discretion'' or any 
     successor or similar memorandum or policy.
       Sec. 131.  Amounts provided by section 101 shall not be 
     made available to implement, administer, or otherwise carry 
     out the policies described in the directive issued by the 
     Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on 
     January 10, 2023, entitled ``Emergency Driving and Vehicular 
     Pursuits''.
       Sec. 132.  Amounts provided by section 101 shall not be 
     made available to implement, administer, or enforce the rule 
     entitled ``Procedures or Credible Fear Screening and 
     Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT 
     Protection Claims by Asylum Officers'' (87 Fed. Reg. 18078).
       Sec. 133.  Amounts provided by section 101 shall not be 
     made available to release (including pursuant to parole or 
     release pursuant to section 236(a) of the Immigration and 
     Nationality Act but excluding as expressly authorized 
     pursuant to section 212(d)(5)) an alien described in section 
     235(b)(1)(A)(i)-(ii), (b)(1)(B), or (b)(2), other than to be 
     removed, including to a country described in section 
     208(a)(2)(A), or returned to a country as described in 
     section 235(b)(3).
       Sec. 134.  Amounts provided by section 101 shall not be 
     made available to implement, administer, or enforce the rule 
     related to ``Circumvention of Lawful Pathways'' (88 Fed. Reg. 
     11704).
       Sec. 135. (a) Sections 1309(a) and 1319 of the National 
     Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4016(a) and 4026) 
     shall be applied by substituting the date specified in 
     section 106(3) of this Act for ``September 30, 2023''.
       (b)(1) Subject to paragraph (2), this section shall become 
     effective immediately upon enactment of this Act.
       (2) If this Act is enacted after September 30, 2023, this 
     section shall be applied as if it were in effect on September 
     30, 2023.
       Sec. 136. (a) Of the amounts made available pursuant to 
     section 40803(c)(2) of Public Law 117-58, the Secretary of 
     Agriculture shall transfer to the Secretary of the Interior 
     such sums as are necessary to continue without interruption 
     the Federal wildland firefighter base salary increase 
     provided under Section 40803(d)(4)(B) of such Public Law.
       (b) In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary of 
     Agriculture--
       (1) may make more than one transfer of funds under this 
     section; and
       (2) may not transfer a total amount of funds greater than 
     $17,250,000.
       (c) No funds transferred pursuant to this section may be 
     obligated without prior written notification, to the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
     and the Senate, of the date of the transfer, the total amount 
     to be transferred, and the remaining funds available for 
     transfer.
       Sec. 137.  Notwithstanding section 101, section 126 of 
     Division J of Public Law 117-328 shall be applied during the 
     period covered by this Act by substituting ``fiscal year 
     2017, fiscal year 2018, and fiscal year 2019'' for ``fiscal 
     year 2017 and fiscal year 2018''.
        This division may be cited as the ``Continuing 
     Appropriations Act, 2024''.

                       DIVISION B--OTHER MATTERS

     SEC. 101. STATUTORY PAYGO SCORECARDS.

       The budgetary effects of this division and each succeeding 
     division shall not be entered on either PAYGO scorecard 
     maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-
     You-Go Act of 2010.

     SEC. 102. SENATE PAYGO SCORECARDS.

       The budgetary effects of this division and each succeeding 
     division shall not be entered on any PAYGO scorecard 
     maintained for purposes of section 4106 of H. Con. Res. 71 
     (115th Congress).

     SEC. 103. CLASSIFICATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS.

       Notwithstanding Rule 3 of the Budget Scorekeeping 
     Guidelines set forth in the joint explanatory statement of 
     the committee of conference accompanying Conference Report 
     105-217 and section 250(c)(8) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the budgetary effects 
     of this division and each succeeding division shall not be 
     estimated--
       (1) for purposes of section 251 of such Act;
       (2) for purposes of an allocation to the Committee on 
     Appropriations pursuant to section 302(a) of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974; and
       (3) for purposes of paragraph (4)(C) of section 3 of the 
     Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 as being included in an 
     appropriation Act.

                      DIVISION C--BORDER SECURITY

     SEC. 101. DEFINITIONS.

       In this division:
       (1) CBP.--The term ``CBP'' means U.S. Customs and Border 
     Protection.
       (2) Commissioner.--The term ``Commissioner'' means the 
     Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
       (3) Department.--The term ``Department'' means the 
     Department of Homeland Security.
       (4) Operational control.--The term ``operational control'' 
     has the meaning given such term in section 2(b) of the Secure 
     Fence Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-367; 8 U.S.C. 1701 note).
       (5) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
     of Homeland Security.
       (6) Situational awareness.--The term ``situational 
     awareness'' has the meaning given such term in section 
     1092(a)(7) of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328; 6 U.S.C. 223(a)(7)).
       (7) Unmanned aircraft system.--The term ``unmanned aircraft 
     system'' has the meaning given such term in section 44801 of 
     title 49, United States Code.

     SEC. 102. BORDER WALL CONSTRUCTION.

       (a) In General.--
       (1) Immediate resumption of border wall construction.--Not 
     later than seven days after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act, the Secretary shall resume all activities related to the 
     construction of the border wall along the border between the 
     United States and Mexico that were underway or being planned 
     for prior to January 20, 2021.

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       (2) Use of funds.--To carry out this section, the Secretary 
     shall expend all unexpired funds appropriated or explicitly 
     obligated for the construction of the border wall that were 
     appropriated or obligated, as the case may be, for use 
     beginning on October 1, 2019.
       (3) Use of materials.--Any unused materials purchased 
     before the date of the enactment of this Act for construction 
     of the border wall may be used for activities related to the 
     construction of the border wall in accordance with paragraph 
     (1).
       (b) Plan To Complete Tactical Infrastructure and 
     Technology.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act and annually thereafter until 
     construction of the border wall has been completed, the 
     Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
     committees an implementation plan, including annual 
     benchmarks for the construction of 200 miles of such wall and 
     associated cost estimates for satisfying all requirements of 
     the construction of the border wall, including installation 
     and deployment of tactical infrastructure, technology, and 
     other elements as identified by the Department prior to 
     January 20, 2021, through the expenditure of funds 
     appropriated or explicitly obligated, as the case may be, for 
     use, as well as any future funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by Congress.
       (c) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means the Committee 
     on Homeland Security and the Committee on Appropriations of 
     the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland 
     Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the Senate.
       (2) Tactical infrastructure.--The term ``tactical 
     infrastructure'' includes boat ramps, access gates, 
     checkpoints, lighting, and roads associated with a border 
     wall.
       (3) Technology.--The term ``technology'' includes border 
     surveillance and detection technology, including linear 
     ground detection systems, associated with a border wall.

     SEC. 103. STRENGTHENING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR BARRIERS ALONG 
                   THE SOUTHERN BORDER.

       Section 102 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant 
     Responsibility Act of 1996 (Division C of Public Law 104-208; 
     8 U.S.C. 1103 note) is amended--
       (1) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
       ``(a) In General.--The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
     take such actions as may be necessary (including the removal 
     of obstacles to detection of illegal entrants) to design, 
     test, construct, install, deploy, integrate, and operate 
     physical barriers, tactical infrastructure, and technology in 
     the vicinity of the southwest border to achieve situational 
     awareness and operational control of the southwest border and 
     deter, impede, and detect unlawful activity.'';
       (2) in subsection (b)--
       (A) in the subsection heading, by striking ``Fencing and 
     Road Improvements'' and inserting ``Physical Barriers'';
       (B) in paragraph (1)--
       (i) in the heading, by striking ``fencing'' and inserting 
     ``barriers'';
       (ii) by amending subparagraph (A) to read as follows:
       ``(A) Reinforced barriers.--In carrying out this section, 
     the Secretary of Homeland Security shall construct a border 
     wall, including physical barriers, tactical infrastructure, 
     and technology, along not fewer than 900 miles of the 
     southwest border until situational awareness and operational 
     control of the southwest border is achieved.'';
       (iii) by amending subparagraph (B) to read as follows:
       ``(B) Physical barriers and tactical infrastructure.--In 
     carrying out this section, the Secretary of Homeland Security 
     shall deploy along the southwest border the most practical 
     and effective physical barriers, tactical infrastructure, and 
     technology available for achieving situational awareness and 
     operational control of the southwest border.'';
       (iv) in subparagraph (C)--

       (I) by amending clause (i) to read as follows:

       ``(i) In general.--In carrying out this section, the 
     Secretary of Homeland Security shall consult with the 
     Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, 
     appropriate representatives of State, Tribal, and local 
     governments, and appropriate private property owners in the 
     United States to minimize the impact on natural resources, 
     commerce, and sites of historical or cultural significance 
     for the communities and residents located near the sites at 
     which physical barriers, tactical infrastructure, and 
     technology are to be constructed. Such consultation may not 
     delay such construction for longer than seven days.''; and

       (II) in clause (ii)--

       (aa) in subclause (I), by striking ``or'' after the 
     semicolon at the end;
       (bb) by amending subclause (II) to read as follows:

       ``(II) delay the transfer to the United States of the 
     possession of property or affect the validity of any property 
     acquisition by the United States by purchase or eminent 
     domain, or to otherwise affect the eminent domain laws of the 
     United States or of any State; or''; and

       (cc) by adding at the end the following new subclause:

       ``(III) create any right or liability for any party.''; and

       (v) by striking subparagraph (D);
       (C) in paragraph (2)--
       (i) by striking ``Attorney General'' and inserting 
     ``Secretary of Homeland Security'';
       (ii) by striking ``this subsection'' and inserting ``this 
     section''; and
       (iii) by striking ``construction of fences'' and inserting 
     ``the construction of physical barriers, tactical 
     infrastructure, and technology'';
       (D) by amending paragraph (3) to read as follows:
       ``(3) Agent safety.--In carrying out this section, the 
     Secretary of Homeland Security, when designing, testing, 
     constructing, installing, deploying, integrating, and 
     operating physical barriers, tactical infrastructure, or 
     technology, shall incorporate such safety features into such 
     design, test, construction, installation, deployment, 
     integration, or operation of such physical barriers, tactical 
     infrastructure, or technology, as the case may be, that the 
     Secretary determines are necessary to maximize the safety and 
     effectiveness of officers and agents of the Department of 
     Homeland Security or of any other Federal agency deployed in 
     the vicinity of such physical barriers, tactical 
     infrastructure, or technology.''; and
       (E) in paragraph (4), by striking ``this subsection'' and 
     inserting ``this section'';
       (3) in subsection (c)--
       (A) by amending paragraph (1) to read as follows:
       ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall waive all legal 
     requirements necessary to ensure the expeditious design, 
     testing, construction, installation, deployment, integration, 
     operation, and maintenance of the physical barriers, tactical 
     infrastructure, and technology under this section. The 
     Secretary shall ensure the maintenance and effectiveness of 
     such physical barriers, tactical infrastructure, or 
     technology. Any such action by the Secretary shall be 
     effective upon publication in the Federal Register.'';
       (B) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and
       (C) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(2) Notification.--Not later than seven days after the 
     date on which the Secretary of Homeland Security exercises a 
     waiver pursuant to paragraph (1), the Secretary shall notify 
     the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Governmental Affairs of the Senate of such waiver.''; and
       (4) by adding at the end the following new subsections:
       ``(e) Technology.--In carrying out this section, the 
     Secretary of Homeland Security shall deploy along the 
     southwest border the most practical and effective technology 
     available for achieving situational awareness and operational 
     control.
       ``(f) Definitions.--In this section:
       ``(1) Advanced unattended surveillance sensors.--The term 
     `advanced unattended surveillance sensors' means sensors that 
     utilize an onboard computer to analyze detections in an 
     effort to discern between vehicles, humans, and animals, and 
     ultimately filter false positives prior to transmission.
       ``(2) Operational control.--The term `operational control' 
     has the meaning given such term in section 2(b) of the Secure 
     Fence Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-367; 8 U.S.C. 1701 note).
       ``(3) Physical barriers.--The term `physical barriers' 
     includes reinforced fencing, the border wall, and levee 
     walls.
       ``(4) Situational awareness.--The term `situational 
     awareness' has the meaning given such term in section 
     1092(a)(7) of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328; 6 U.S.C. 223(a)(7)).
       ``(5) Tactical infrastructure.--The term `tactical 
     infrastructure' includes boat ramps, access gates, 
     checkpoints, lighting, and roads.
       ``(6) Technology.--The term `technology' includes border 
     surveillance and detection technology, including the 
     following:
       ``(A) Tower-based surveillance technology.
       ``(B) Deployable, lighter-than-air ground surveillance 
     equipment.
       ``(C) Vehicle and Dismount Exploitation Radars (VADER).
       ``(D) 3-dimensional, seismic acoustic detection and ranging 
     border tunneling detection technology.
       ``(E) Advanced unattended surveillance sensors.
       ``(F) Mobile vehicle-mounted and man-portable surveillance 
     capabilities.
       ``(G) Unmanned aircraft systems.
       ``(H) Tunnel detection systems and other seismic 
     technology.
       ``(I) Fiber-optic cable.
       ``(J) Other border detection, communication, and 
     surveillance technology.
       ``(7) Unmanned aircraft system.--The term `unmanned 
     aircraft system' has the meaning given such term in section 
     44801 of title 49, United States Code.''.

     SEC. 104. BORDER AND PORT SECURITY TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT 
                   PLAN.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner, in consultation 
     with covered officials and border and port security 
     technology stakeholders, shall submit to the appropriate 
     congressional committees a strategic 5-year technology 
     investment plan (in this section referred to as the 
     ``plan''). The plan may include a classified annex, if 
     appropriate.

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       (b) Contents of Plan.--The plan shall include the 
     following:
       (1) An analysis of security risks at and between ports of 
     entry along the northern and southern borders of the United 
     States.
       (2) An identification of capability gaps with respect to 
     security at and between such ports of entry to be mitigated 
     in order to--
       (A) prevent terrorists and instruments of terror from 
     entering the United States;
       (B) combat and reduce cross-border criminal activity, 
     including--
       (i) the transport of illegal goods, such as illicit drugs; 
     and
       (ii) human smuggling and human trafficking; and
       (C) facilitate the flow of legal trade across the southwest 
     border.
       (3) An analysis of current and forecast trends relating to 
     the number of aliens who--
       (A) unlawfully entered the United States by crossing the 
     northern or southern border of the United States; or
       (B) are unlawfully present in the United States.
       (4) A description of security-related technology 
     acquisitions, to be listed in order of priority, to address 
     the security risks and capability gaps analyzed and 
     identified pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively.
       (5) A description of each planned security-related 
     technology program, including objectives, goals, and 
     timelines for each such program.
       (6) An identification of each deployed security-related 
     technology that is at or near the end of the life cycle of 
     such technology.
       (7) A description of the test, evaluation, modeling, and 
     simulation capabilities, including target methodologies, 
     rationales, and timelines, necessary to support the 
     acquisition of security-related technologies pursuant to 
     paragraph (4).
       (8) An identification and assessment of ways to increase 
     opportunities for communication and collaboration with the 
     private sector, small and disadvantaged businesses, 
     intragovernment entities, university centers of excellence, 
     and federal laboratories to ensure CBP is able to engage with 
     the market for security-related technologies that are 
     available to satisfy its mission needs before engaging in an 
     acquisition of a security-related technology.
       (9) An assessment of the management of planned security-
     related technology programs by the acquisition workforce of 
     CBP.
       (10) An identification of ways to leverage already-existing 
     acquisition expertise within the Federal Government.
       (11) A description of the security resources, including 
     information security resources, required to protect security-
     related technology from physical or cyber theft, diversion, 
     sabotage, or attack.
       (12) A description of initiatives to--
       (A) streamline the acquisition process of CBP; and
       (B) provide to the private sector greater predictability 
     and transparency with respect to such process, including 
     information relating to the timeline for testing and 
     evaluation of security-related technology.
       (13) An assessment of the privacy and security impact on 
     border communities of security-related technology.
       (14) In the case of a new acquisition leading to the 
     removal of equipment from a port of entry along the northern 
     or southern border of the United States, a strategy to 
     consult with the private sector and community stakeholders 
     affected by such removal.
       (15) A strategy to consult with the private sector and 
     community stakeholders with respect to security impacts at a 
     port of entry described in paragraph (14).
       (16) An identification of recent technological advancements 
     in the following:
       (A) Manned aircraft sensor, communication, and common 
     operating picture technology.
       (B) Unmanned aerial systems and related technology, 
     including counter-unmanned aerial system technology.
       (C) Surveillance technology, including the following:
       (i) Mobile surveillance vehicles.
       (ii) Associated electronics, including cameras, sensor 
     technology, and radar.
       (iii) Tower-based surveillance technology.
       (iv) Advanced unattended surveillance sensors.
       (v) Deployable, lighter-than-air, ground surveillance 
     equipment.
       (D) Nonintrusive inspection technology, including non-x-ray 
     devices utilizing muon tomography and other advanced 
     detection technology.
       (E) Tunnel detection technology.
       (F) Communications equipment, including the following:
       (i) Radios.
       (ii) Long-term evolution broadband.
       (iii) Miniature satellites.
       (c) Leveraging the Private Sector.--To the extent 
     practicable, the plan shall--
       (1) leverage emerging technological capabilities, and 
     research and development trends, within the public and 
     private sectors;
       (2) incorporate input from the private sector, including 
     from border and port security stakeholders, through requests 
     for information, industry day events, and other innovative 
     means consistent with the Federal Acquisition Regulation; and
       (3) identify security-related technologies that are in 
     development or deployed, with or without adaptation, that may 
     satisfy the mission needs of CBP.
       (d) Form.--To the extent practicable, the plan shall be 
     published in unclassified form on the website of the 
     Department.
       (e) Disclosure.--The plan shall include an identification 
     of individuals not employed by the Federal Government, and 
     their professional affiliations, who contributed to the 
     development of the plan.
       (f) Update and Report.--Not later than the date that is two 
     years after the date on which the plan is submitted to the 
     appropriate congressional committees pursuant to subsection 
     (a) and biennially thereafter for ten years, the Commissioner 
     shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees--
       (1) an update of the plan, if appropriate; and
       (2) a report that includes--
       (A) the extent to which each security-related technology 
     acquired by CBP since the initial submission of the plan or 
     most recent update of the plan, as the case may be, is 
     consistent with the planned technology programs and projects 
     described pursuant to subsection (b)(5); and
       (B) the type of contract and the reason for acquiring each 
     such security-related technology.
       (g) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
       (A) the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and
       (B) the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
     Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.
       (2) Covered officials.--The term ``covered officials'' 
     means--
       (A) the Under Secretary for Management of the Department;
       (B) the Under Secretary for Science and Technology of the 
     Department; and
       (C) the Chief Information Officer of the Department.
       (3) Unlawfully present.--The term ``unlawfully present'' 
     has the meaning provided such term in section 
     212(a)(9)(B)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
     U.S.C. 1182(a)(9)(B)(ii)).

     SEC. 105. BORDER SECURITY TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM MANAGEMENT.

       (a) In General.--Subtitle C of title IV of the Homeland 
     Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 231 et seq.) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new section:

     ``SEC. 437. BORDER SECURITY TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM MANAGEMENT.

       ``(a) Major Acquisition Program Defined.--In this section, 
     the term `major acquisition program' means an acquisition 
     program of the Department that is estimated by the Secretary 
     to require an eventual total expenditure of at least 
     $100,000,000 (based on fiscal year 2023 constant dollars) 
     over its life-cycle cost.
       ``(b) Planning Documentation.--For each border security 
     technology acquisition program of the Department that is 
     determined to be a major acquisition program, the Secretary 
     shall--
       ``(1) ensure that each such program has a written 
     acquisition program baseline approved by the relevant 
     acquisition decision authority;
       ``(2) document that each such program is satisfying cost, 
     schedule, and performance thresholds as specified in such 
     baseline, in compliance with relevant departmental 
     acquisition policies and the Federal Acquisition Regulation; 
     and
       ``(3) have a plan for satisfying program implementation 
     objectives by managing contractor performance.
       ``(c) Adherence to Standards.--The Secretary, acting 
     through the Under Secretary for Management and the 
     Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, shall 
     ensure border security technology acquisition program 
     managers who are responsible for carrying out this section 
     adhere to relevant internal control standards identified by 
     the Comptroller General of the United States. The 
     Commissioner shall provide information, as needed, to assist 
     the Under Secretary in monitoring management of border 
     security technology acquisition programs under this section.
       ``(d) Plan.--The Secretary, acting through the Under 
     Secretary for Management, in coordination with the Under 
     Secretary for Science and Technology and the Commissioner of 
     U.S. Customs and Border Protection, shall submit to the 
     Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Governmental Affairs of the Senate a plan for testing, 
     evaluating, and using independent verification and validation 
     of resources relating to the proposed acquisition of border 
     security technology. Under such plan, the proposed 
     acquisition of new border security technologies shall be 
     evaluated through a series of assessments, processes, and 
     audits to ensure--
       ``(1) compliance with relevant departmental acquisition 
     policies and the Federal Acquisition Regulation; and
       ``(2) the effective use of taxpayer dollars.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 
     1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is amended by 
     inserting after the item relating to section 436 the 
     following new item:

``Sec. 437. Border security technology program management.''.
       (c) Prohibition on Additional Authorization of 
     Appropriations.--No additional funds are authorized to be 
     appropriated to carry out section 437 of the Homeland 
     Security Act of 2002, as added by subsection (a).

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     SEC. 106. U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION TECHNOLOGY 
                   UPGRADES.

       (a) Secure Communications.--The Commissioner shall ensure 
     that each CBP officer or agent, as appropriate, is equipped 
     with a secure radio or other two-way communication device 
     that allows each such officer or agent to communicate--
       (1) between ports of entry and inspection stations; and
       (2) with other Federal, State, Tribal, and local law 
     enforcement entities.
       (b) Border Security Deployment Program.--
       (1) Expansion.--Not later than September 30, 2025, the 
     Commissioner shall--
       (A) fully implement the Border Security Deployment Program 
     of CBP; and
       (B) expand the integrated surveillance and intrusion 
     detection system at land ports of entry along the northern 
     and southern borders of the United States.
       (2) Authorization of appropriations.--In addition to 
     amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated for such 
     purpose, there is authorized to be appropriated $33,000,000 
     for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to carry out paragraph (1).
       (c) Upgrade of License Plate Readers at Ports of Entry.--
       (1) Upgrade.--Not later than two years after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner shall upgrade all 
     existing license plate readers in need of upgrade, as 
     determined by the Commissioner, on the northern and southern 
     borders of the United States.
       (2) Authorization of appropriations.--In addition to 
     amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated for such 
     purpose, there is authorized to be appropriated $125,000,000 
     for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 to carry out paragraph (1).

     SEC. 107. U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION PERSONNEL.

       (a) Retention Bonus.--To carry out this section, there is 
     authorized to be appropriated up to $100,000,000 to the 
     Commissioner to provide a retention bonus to any front-line 
     U.S. Border Patrol law enforcement agent--
       (1) whose position is equal to or below level GS-12 of the 
     General Schedule;
       (2) who has five years or more of service with the U.S. 
     Border Patrol; and
       (3) who commits to two years of additional service with the 
     U.S. Border Patrol upon acceptance of such bonus.
       (b) Border Patrol Agents.--Not later than September 30, 
     2025, the Commissioner shall hire, train, and assign a 
     sufficient number of Border Patrol agents to maintain an 
     active duty presence of not fewer than 22,000 full-time 
     equivalent Border Patrol agents, who may not perform the 
     duties of processing coordinators.
       (c) Prohibition Against Alien Travel.--No personnel or 
     equipment of Air and Marine Operations may be used for the 
     transportation of non-detained aliens, or detained aliens 
     expected to be administratively released upon arrival, from 
     the southwest border to destinations within the United 
     States.
       (d) GAO Report.--If the staffing level required under this 
     section is not achieved by the date associated with such 
     level, the Comptroller General of the United States shall--
       (1) conduct a review of the reasons why such level was not 
     so achieved; and
       (2) not later than September 30, 2027, publish on a 
     publicly available website of the Government Accountability 
     Office a report relating thereto.

     SEC. 108. ANTI-BORDER CORRUPTION ACT REAUTHORIZATION.

       (a) Hiring Flexibility.--Section 3 of the Anti-Border 
     Corruption Act of 2010 (6 U.S.C. 221; Public Law 111-376) is 
     amended by striking subsection (b) and inserting the 
     following new subsections:
       ``(b) Waiver Requirement.--Subject to subsection (c), the 
     Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall 
     waive the application of subsection (a)(1)--
       ``(1) to a current, full-time law enforcement officer 
     employed by a State or local law enforcement agency who--
       ``(A) has continuously served as a law enforcement officer 
     for not fewer than three years;
       ``(B) is authorized by law to engage in or supervise the 
     prevention, detection, investigation, or prosecution of, or 
     the incarceration of any person for, any violation of law, 
     and has statutory powers for arrest or apprehension; and
       ``(C) is not currently under investigation, has not been 
     found to have engaged in criminal activity or serious 
     misconduct, has not resigned from a law enforcement officer 
     position under investigation or in lieu of termination, and 
     has not been dismissed from a law enforcement officer 
     position;
       ``(2) to a current, full-time Federal law enforcement 
     officer who--
       ``(A) has continuously served as a law enforcement officer 
     for not fewer than three years;
       ``(B) is authorized to make arrests, conduct 
     investigations, conduct searches, make seizures, carry 
     firearms, and serve orders, warrants, and other processes;
       ``(C) is not currently under investigation, has not been 
     found to have engaged in criminal activity or serious 
     misconduct, has not resigned from a law enforcement officer 
     position under investigation or in lieu of termination, and 
     has not been dismissed from a law enforcement officer 
     position; and
       ``(D) holds a current Tier 4 background investigation or 
     current Tier 5 background investigation; or
       ``(3) to a member of the Armed Forces (or a reserve 
     component thereof) or a veteran, if such individual--
       ``(A) has served in the Armed Forces for not fewer than 
     three years;
       ``(B) holds, or has held within the past five years, a 
     Secret, Top Secret, or Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented 
     Information clearance;
       ``(C) holds, or has undergone within the past five years, a 
     current Tier 4 background investigation or current Tier 5 
     background investigation;
       ``(D) received, or is eligible to receive, an honorable 
     discharge from service in the Armed Forces and has not 
     engaged in criminal activity or committed a serious military 
     or civil offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice; 
     and
       ``(E) was not granted any waivers to obtain the clearance 
     referred to in subparagraph (B).
       ``(c) Termination of Waiver Requirement; Snap-Back.--The 
     requirement to issue a waiver under subsection (b) shall 
     terminate if the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border 
     Protection (CBP) certifies to the Committee on Homeland 
     Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
     Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate that 
     CBP has met all requirements pursuant to section 107 of the 
     Secure the Border Act of 2023 relating to personnel levels. 
     If at any time after such certification personnel levels fall 
     below such requirements, the Commissioner shall waive the 
     application of subsection (a)(1) until such time as the 
     Commissioner re-certifies to such Committees that CBP has so 
     met all such requirements.''.
       (b) Supplemental Commissioner Authority; Reporting; 
     Definitions.--The Anti-Border Corruption Act of 2010 is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new sections:

     ``SEC. 5. SUPPLEMENTAL COMMISSIONER AUTHORITY.

       ``(a) Nonexemption.--An individual who receives a waiver 
     under section 3(b) is not exempt from any other hiring 
     requirements relating to suitability for employment and 
     eligibility to hold a national security designated position, 
     as determined by the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border 
     Protection.
       ``(b) Background Investigations.--An individual who 
     receives a waiver under section 3(b) who holds a current Tier 
     4 background investigation shall be subject to a Tier 5 
     background investigation.
       ``(c) Administration of Polygraph Examination.--The 
     Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection is 
     authorized to administer a polygraph examination to an 
     applicant or employee who is eligible for or receives a 
     waiver under section 3(b) if information is discovered before 
     the completion of a background investigation that results in 
     a determination that a polygraph examination is necessary to 
     make a final determination regarding suitability for 
     employment or continued employment, as the case may be.

     ``SEC. 6. REPORTING.

       ``(a) Annual Report.--Not later than one year after the 
     date of the enactment of this section and annually thereafter 
     while the waiver authority under section 3(b) is in effect, 
     the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall 
     submit to Congress a report that includes, with respect to 
     each such reporting period, the following:
       ``(1) Information relating to the number of waivers granted 
     under such section 3(b).
       ``(2) Information relating to the percentage of applicants 
     who were hired after receiving such a waiver.
       ``(3) Information relating to the number of instances that 
     a polygraph was administered to an applicant who initially 
     received such a waiver and the results of such polygraph.
       ``(4) An assessment of the current impact of such waiver 
     authority on filling law enforcement positions at U.S. 
     Customs and Border Protection.
       ``(5) An identification of additional authorities needed by 
     U.S. Customs and Border Protection to better utilize such 
     waiver authority for its intended goals.
       ``(b) Additional Information.--The first report submitted 
     under subsection (a) shall include the following:
       ``(1) An analysis of other methods of employment 
     suitability tests that detect deception and could be used in 
     conjunction with traditional background investigations to 
     evaluate potential applicants or employees for suitability 
     for employment or continued employment, as the case may be.
       ``(2) A recommendation regarding whether a test referred to 
     in paragraph (1) should be adopted by U.S. Customs and Border 
     Protection when the polygraph examination requirement is 
     waived pursuant to section 3(b).

     ``SEC. 7. DEFINITIONS.

       ``In this Act:
       ``(1) Federal law enforcement officer.--The term `Federal 
     law enforcement officer' means a `law enforcement officer', 
     as such term is defined in section 8331(20) or 8401(17) of 
     title 5, United States Code.
       ``(2) Serious military or civil offense.--The term `serious 
     military or civil offense' means an offense for which--
       ``(A) a member of the Armed Forces may be discharged or 
     separated from service in the Armed Forces; and
       ``(B) a punitive discharge is, or would be, authorized for 
     the same or a closely related offense under the Manual for 
     Court-Martial, as pursuant to Army Regulation 635-200, 
     chapter 14-12.

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       ``(3) Tier 4; tier 5.--The terms `Tier 4' and `Tier 5', 
     with respect to background investigations, have the meaning 
     given such terms under the 2012 Federal Investigative 
     Standards.
       ``(4) Veteran.--The term `veteran' has the meaning given 
     such term in section 101(2) of title 38, United States 
     Code.''.
       (c) Polygraph Examiners.--Not later than September 30, 
     2025, the Secretary shall increase to not fewer than 150 the 
     number of trained full-time equivalent polygraph examiners 
     for administering polygraphs under the Anti-Border Corruption 
     Act of 2010, as amended by this section.

     SEC. 109. ESTABLISHMENT OF WORKLOAD STAFFING MODELS FOR U.S. 
                   BORDER PATROL AND AIR AND MARINE OPERATIONS OF 
                   CBP.

       (a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner, in coordination 
     with the Under Secretary for Management, the Chief Human 
     Capital Officer, and the Chief Financial Officer of the 
     Department, shall implement a workload staffing model for 
     each of the following:
       (1) The U.S. Border Patrol.
       (2) Air and Marine Operations of CBP.
       (b) Responsibilities of the Commissioner.--Subsection (c) 
     of section 411 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
     211), is amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraphs (18) and (19) as paragraphs 
     (20) and (21), respectively; and
       (2) by inserting after paragraph (17) the following new 
     paragraphs:
       ``(18) implement a staffing model for the U.S. Border 
     Patrol, Air and Marine Operations, and the Office of Field 
     Operations that includes consideration for essential 
     frontline operator activities and functions, variations in 
     operating environments, present and planned infrastructure, 
     present and planned technology, and required operations 
     support levels to enable such entities to manage and assign 
     personnel of such entities to ensure field and support posts 
     possess adequate resources to carry out duties specified in 
     this section;
       ``(19) develop standard operating procedures for a 
     workforce tracking system within the U.S. Border Patrol, Air 
     and Marine Operations, and the Office of Field Operations, 
     train the workforce of each of such entities on the use, 
     capabilities, and purpose of such system, and implement 
     internal controls to ensure timely and accurate scheduling 
     and reporting of actual completed work hours and 
     activities;''.
       (c) Report.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than one year after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act with respect to subsection (a) and 
     paragraphs (18) and (19) of section 411(c) of the Homeland 
     Security Act of 2002 (as amended by subsection (b)), and 
     annually thereafter with respect to such paragraphs (18) and 
     (19), the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate 
     congressional committees a report that includes a status 
     update on the following:
       (A) The implementation of such subsection (a) and such 
     paragraphs (18) and (19).
       (B) Each relevant workload staffing model.
       (2) Data sources and methodology required.--Each report 
     required under paragraph (1) shall include information 
     relating to the data sources and methodology used to generate 
     each relevant staffing model.
       (d) Inspector General Review.--Not later than 90 days after 
     the Commissioner develops the workload staffing models 
     pursuant to subsection (a), the Inspector General of the 
     Department shall review such models and provide feedback to 
     the Secretary and the appropriate congressional committees 
     with respect to the degree to which such models are 
     responsive to the recommendations of the Inspector General, 
     including the following:
       (1) Recommendations from the Inspector General's February 
     2019 audit.
       (2) Any further recommendations to improve such models.
       (e) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
     Representatives; and
       (2) the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
     Affairs of the Senate.

     SEC. 110. OPERATION STONEGARDEN.

       (a) In General.--Subtitle A of title XX of the Homeland 
     Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new section:

     ``SEC. 2010. OPERATION STONEGARDEN.

       ``(a) Establishment.--There is established in the 
     Department a program to be known as `Operation Stonegarden', 
     under which the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, 
     shall make grants to eligible law enforcement agencies, 
     through State administrative agencies, to enhance border 
     security in accordance with this section.
       ``(b) Eligible Recipients.--To be eligible to receive a 
     grant under this section, a law enforcement agency shall--
       ``(1) be located in--
       ``(A) a State bordering Canada or Mexico; or
       ``(B) a State or territory with a maritime border;
       ``(2) be involved in an active, ongoing, U.S. Customs and 
     Border Protection operation coordinated through a U.S. Border 
     Patrol sector office; and
       ``(3) have an agreement in place with U.S. Immigration and 
     Customs Enforcement to support enforcement operations.
       ``(c) Permitted Uses.--A recipient of a grant under this 
     section may use such grant for costs associated with the 
     following:
       ``(1) Equipment, including maintenance and sustainment.
       ``(2) Personnel, including overtime and backfill, in 
     support of enhanced border law enforcement activities.
       ``(3) Any activity permitted for Operation Stonegarden 
     under the most recent fiscal year Department of Homeland 
     Security's Homeland Security Grant Program Notice of Funding 
     Opportunity.
       ``(d) Period of Performance.--The Secretary shall award 
     grants under this section to grant recipients for a period of 
     not fewer than 36 months.
       ``(e) Notification.--Upon denial of a grant to a law 
     enforcement agency, the Administrator shall provide written 
     notice to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Governmental Affairs of the Senate, including the reasoning 
     for such denial.
       ``(f) Report.--For each of fiscal years 2024 through 2028 
     the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Homeland 
     Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
     Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a 
     report that contains--
       ``(1) information on the expenditure of grants made under 
     this section by each grant recipient; and
       ``(2) recommendations for other uses of such grants to 
     further support eligible law enforcement agencies.
       ``(g) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated $110,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 
     through 2028 for grants under this section.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Subsection (a) of section 2002 
     of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 603) is 
     amended to read as follows:
       ``(a) Grants Authorized.--The Secretary, through the 
     Administrator, may award grants under sections 2003, 2004, 
     2009, and 2010 to State, local, and Tribal governments, as 
     appropriate.''.
       (c) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 
     1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is amended by 
     inserting after the item relating to section 2009 the 
     following new item:

``Sec. 2010. Operation Stonegarden.''.

     SEC. 111. AIR AND MARINE OPERATIONS FLIGHT HOURS.

       (a) Air and Marine Operations Flight Hours.--Not later than 
     120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
     Secretary shall ensure that not fewer than 110,000 annual 
     flight hours are carried out by Air and Marine Operations of 
     CBP.
       (b) Unmanned Aircraft Systems.--The Secretary, after 
     coordination with the Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
     Administration, shall ensure that Air and Marine Operations 
     operate unmanned aircraft systems on the southern border of 
     the United States for not less than 24 hours per day.
       (c) Primary Missions.--The Commissioner shall ensure the 
     following:
       (1) The primary missions for Air and Marine Operations are 
     to directly support the following:
       (A) U.S. Border Patrol activities along the borders of the 
     United States.
       (B) Joint Interagency Task Force South and Joint Task Force 
     East operations in the transit zone.
       (2) The Executive Assistant Commissioner of Air and Marine 
     Operations assigns the greatest priority to support missions 
     specified in paragraph (1).
       (d) High Demand Flight Hour Requirements.--The Commissioner 
     shall--
       (1) ensure that U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chiefs identify 
     air support mission-critical hours; and
       (2) direct Air and Marine Operations to support requests 
     from such Sector Chiefs as a component of the primary mission 
     of Air and Marine Operations in accordance with subsection 
     (c)(1)(A).
       (e) Contract Air Support Authorizations.--The Commissioner 
     shall contract for air support mission-critical hours to meet 
     the requests for such hours, as identified pursuant to 
     subsection (d).
       (f) Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems.--
       (1) In general.--The Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol shall 
     be the executive agent with respect to the use of small 
     unmanned aircraft by CBP for the purposes of the following:
       (A) Meeting the unmet flight hour operational requirements 
     of the U.S. Border Patrol.
       (B) Achieving situational awareness and operational control 
     of the borders of the United States.
       (2) Coordination.--In carrying out paragraph (1), the Chief 
     of the U.S. Border Patrol shall coordinate--
       (A) flight operations with the Administrator of the Federal 
     Aviation Administration to ensure the safe and efficient 
     operation of the national airspace system; and
       (B) with the Executive Assistant Commissioner for Air and 
     Marine Operations of CBP to--
       (i) ensure the safety of other CBP aircraft flying in the 
     vicinity of small unmanned aircraft operated by the U.S. 
     Border Patrol; and
       (ii) establish a process to include data from flight hours 
     in the calculation of got away statistics.

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       (3) Conforming amendment.--Paragraph (3) of section 411(e) 
     of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 211(e)) is 
     amended--
       (A) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``and'' after the 
     semicolon at the end;
       (B) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (D); 
     and
       (C) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following new 
     subparagraph:
       ``(C) carry out the small unmanned aircraft (as such term 
     is defined in section 44801 of title 49, United States Code) 
     requirements pursuant to subsection (f) of section 111 of the 
     Secure the Border Act of 2023; and''.
       (g) Savings Clause.--Nothing in this section may be 
     construed as conferring, transferring, or delegating to the 
     Secretary, the Commissioner, the Executive Assistant 
     Commissioner for Air and Marine Operations of CBP, or the 
     Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol any authority of the 
     Secretary of Transportation or the Administrator of the 
     Federal Aviation Administration relating to the use of 
     airspace or aviation safety.
       (h) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Got away.--The term ``got away'' has the meaning given 
     such term in section 1092(a)(3) of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328; 6 
     U.S.C. 223(a)(3)).
       (2) Transit zone.--The term ``transit zone'' has the 
     meaning given such term in section 1092(a)(8) of the National 
     Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 
     114-328; 6 U.S.C. 223(a)(8)).

     SEC. 112. ERADICATION OF CARRIZO CANE AND SALT CEDAR.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in coordination 
     with the heads of relevant Federal, State, and local 
     agencies, shall hire contractors to begin eradicating the 
     carrizo cane plant and any salt cedar along the Rio Grande 
     River that impedes border security operations. Such 
     eradication shall be completed--
       (1) by not later than September 30, 2027, except for 
     required maintenance; and
       (2) in the most expeditious and cost-effective manner 
     possible to maintain clear fields of view.
       (b) Application.--The waiver authority under subsection (c) 
     of section 102 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and 
     Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1103 note), as 
     amended by section 103 of this division, shall apply to 
     activities carried out pursuant to subsection (a).
       (c) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the 
     Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Governmental Affairs of the Senate a strategic plan to 
     eradicate all carrizo cane plant and salt cedar along the Rio 
     Grande River that impedes border security operations by not 
     later than September 30, 2027.
       (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated $7,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 
     through 2028 to the Secretary to carry out this subsection.

     SEC. 113. BORDER PATROL STRATEGIC PLAN.

       (a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act and biennially thereafter, the 
     Commissioner, acting through the Chief of the U.S. Border 
     Patrol, shall issue a Border Patrol Strategic Plan (referred 
     to in this section as the ``plan'') to enhance the security 
     of the borders of the United States.
       (b) Elements.--The plan shall include the following:
       (1) A consideration of Border Patrol Capability Gap 
     Analysis reporting, Border Security Improvement Plans, and 
     any other strategic document authored by the U.S. Border 
     Patrol to address security gaps between ports of entry, 
     including efforts to mitigate threats identified in such 
     analyses, plans, and documents.
       (2) Information relating to the dissemination of 
     information relating to border security or border threats 
     with respect to the efforts of the Department and other 
     appropriate Federal agencies.
       (3) Information relating to efforts by U.S. Border Patrol 
     to--
       (A) increase situational awareness, including--
       (i) surveillance capabilities, such as capabilities 
     developed or utilized by the Department of Defense, and any 
     appropriate technology determined to be excess by the 
     Department of Defense; and
       (ii) the use of manned aircraft and unmanned aircraft;
       (B) detect and prevent terrorists and instruments of 
     terrorism from entering the United States;
       (C) detect, interdict, and disrupt between ports of entry 
     aliens unlawfully present in the United States;
       (D) detect, interdict, and disrupt human smuggling, human 
     trafficking, drug trafficking, and other illicit cross-border 
     activity;
       (E) focus intelligence collection to disrupt transnational 
     criminal organizations outside of the international and 
     maritime borders of the United States; and
       (F) ensure that any new border security technology can be 
     operationally integrated with existing technologies in use by 
     the Department.
       (4) Information relating to initiatives of the Department 
     with respect to operational coordination, including any 
     relevant task forces of the Department.
       (5) Information gathered from the lessons learned by the 
     deployments of the National Guard to the southern border of 
     the United States.
       (6) A description of cooperative agreements relating to 
     information sharing with State, local, Tribal, territorial, 
     and other Federal law enforcement agencies that have 
     jurisdiction on the borders of the United States.
       (7) Information relating to border security information 
     received from the following:
       (A) State, local, Tribal, territorial, and other Federal 
     law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction on the 
     borders of the United States or in the maritime environment.
       (B) Border community stakeholders, including 
     representatives from the following:
       (i) Border agricultural and ranching organizations.
       (ii) Business and civic organizations.
       (iii) Hospitals and rural clinics within 150 miles of the 
     borders of the United States.
       (iv) Victims of crime committed by aliens unlawfully 
     present in the United States.
       (v) Victims impacted by drugs, transnational criminal 
     organizations, cartels, gangs, or other criminal activity.
       (vi) Farmers, ranchers, and property owners along the 
     border.
       (vii) Other individuals negatively impacted by illegal 
     immigration.
       (8) Information relating to the staffing requirements with 
     respect to border security for the Department.
       (9) A prioritized list of Department research and 
     development objectives to enhance the security of the borders 
     of the United States.
       (10) An assessment of training programs, including such 
     programs relating to the following:
       (A) Identifying and detecting fraudulent documents.
       (B) Understanding the scope of CBP enforcement authorities 
     and appropriate use of force policies.
       (C) Screening, identifying, and addressing vulnerable 
     populations, such as children and victims of human 
     trafficking.

     SEC. 114. U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION SPIRITUAL 
                   READINESS.

       Not later than one year after the enactment of this Act and 
     annually thereafter for five years, the Commissioner shall 
     submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report on the 
     availability and usage of the assistance of chaplains, prayer 
     groups, houses of worship, and other spiritual resources for 
     members of CBP who identify as religiously affiliated and 
     have attempted suicide, have suicidal ideation, or are at 
     risk of suicide, and metrics on the impact such resources 
     have in assisting religiously affiliated members who have 
     access to and utilize such resources compared to religiously 
     affiliated members who do not.

     SEC. 115. RESTRICTIONS ON FUNDING.

       (a) Arriving Aliens.--No funds are authorized to be 
     appropriated to the Department to process the entry into the 
     United States of aliens arriving in between ports of entry.
       (b) Restriction on Nongovernmental Organization Support for 
     Unlawful Activity.--No funds are authorized to be 
     appropriated to the Department for disbursement to any 
     nongovernmental organization that facilitates or encourages 
     unlawful activity, including unlawful entry, human 
     trafficking, human smuggling, drug trafficking, and drug 
     smuggling.
       (c) Restriction on Nongovernmental Organization 
     Facilitation of Illegal Immigration.--No funds are authorized 
     to be appropriated to the Department for disbursement to any 
     nongovernmental organization to provide, or facilitate the 
     provision of, transportation, lodging, or immigration legal 
     services to inadmissible aliens who enter the United States 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 116. COLLECTION OF DNA AND BIOMETRIC INFORMATION AT THE 
                   BORDER.

       Not later than 14 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary shall ensure and certify to the 
     Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Governmental Affairs of the Senate that CBP is fully 
     compliant with Federal DNA and biometric collection 
     requirements at United States land borders.

     SEC. 117. ERADICATION OF NARCOTIC DRUGS AND FORMULATING 
                   EFFECTIVE NEW TOOLS TO ADDRESS YEARLY LOSSES OF 
                   LIFE; ENSURING TIMELY UPDATES TO U.S. CUSTOMS 
                   AND BORDER PROTECTION FIELD MANUALS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, and not less frequently than 
     triennially thereafter, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and 
     Border Protection shall review and update, as necessary, the 
     current policies and manuals of the Office of Field 
     Operations related to inspections at ports of entry, and the 
     U.S. Border Patrol related to inspections between ports of 
     entry, to ensure the uniform implementation of inspection 
     practices that will effectively respond to technological and 
     methodological changes designed to disguise unlawful 
     activity, such as the smuggling of drugs and humans, along 
     the border.
       (b) Reporting Requirement.--Not later than 90 days after 
     each update required under subsection (a), the Commissioner 
     of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall submit to the 
     Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on the 
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     the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland 
     Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on the 
     Judiciary of the Senate a report that summarizes any policy 
     and manual changes pursuant to subsection (a).

     SEC. 118. PUBLICATION BY U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION 
                   OF OPERATIONAL STATISTICS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than the seventh day of each 
     month beginning with the second full month after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs 
     and Border Protection shall publish on a publicly available 
     website of the Department of Homeland Security information 
     relating to the total number of alien encounters and 
     nationalities, unique alien encounters and nationalities, 
     gang affiliated apprehensions and nationalities, drug 
     seizures, alien encounters included in the terrorist 
     screening database and nationalities, arrests of criminal 
     aliens or individuals wanted by law enforcement and 
     nationalities, known got aways, encounters with deceased 
     aliens, and all other related or associated statistics 
     recorded by U.S. Customs and Border Protection during the 
     immediately preceding month. Each such publication shall 
     include the following:
       (1) The aggregate such number, and such number 
     disaggregated by geographic regions, of such recordings and 
     encounters, including specifications relating to whether such 
     recordings and encounters were at the southwest, northern, or 
     maritime border.
       (2) An identification of the Office of Field Operations 
     field office, U.S. Border Patrol sector, or Air and Marine 
     Operations branch making each recording or encounter.
       (3) Information relating to whether each recording or 
     encounter of an alien was of a single adult, an unaccompanied 
     alien child, or an individual in a family unit.
       (4) Information relating to the processing disposition of 
     each alien recording or encounter.
       (5) Information relating to the nationality of each alien 
     who is the subject of each recording or encounter.
       (6) The total number of individuals included in the 
     terrorist screening database (as such term is defined in 
     section 2101 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
     621)) who have repeatedly attempted to cross unlawfully into 
     the United States.
       (7) The total number of individuals included in the 
     terrorist screening database who have been apprehended, 
     including information relating to whether such individuals 
     were released into the United States or removed.
       (b) Exceptions.--If the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and 
     Border Protection in any month does not publish the 
     information required under subsection (a), or does not 
     publish such information by the date specified in such 
     subsection, the Commissioner shall brief the Committee on 
     Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the 
     Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of 
     the Senate regarding the reason relating thereto, as the case 
     may be, by not later than the date that is two business days 
     after the tenth day of such month.
       (c) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Alien encounters.--The term ``alien encounters'' means 
     aliens apprehended, determined inadmissible, or processed for 
     removal by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
       (2) Got away.--The term ``got away'' has the meaning given 
     such term in section 1092(a) of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (6 U.S.C. 223(a)).
       (3) Terrorist screening database.--The term ``terrorist 
     screening database'' has the meaning given such term in 
     section 2101 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
     621).
       (4) Unaccompanied alien child.--The term ``unaccompanied 
     alien child'' has the meaning given such term in section 
     462(g) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
     279(g)).

     SEC. 119. ALIEN CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than seven days after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner shall certify 
     to the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on 
     the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the 
     Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and 
     the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate that CBP has 
     real-time access to the criminal history databases of all 
     countries of origin and transit for aliens encountered by CBP 
     to perform criminal history background checks for such 
     aliens.
       (b) Standards.--The certification required under subsection 
     (a) shall also include a determination whether the criminal 
     history databases of a country are accurate, up to date, 
     digitized, searchable, and otherwise meet the standards of 
     the Federal Bureau of Investigation for criminal history 
     databases maintained by State and local governments.
       (c) Certification.--The Secretary shall annually submit to 
     the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on the 
     Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
     on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the 
     Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a certification that 
     each database referred to in subsection (b) which the 
     Secretary accessed or sought to access pursuant to this 
     section met the standards described in subsection (b).

     SEC. 120. PROHIBITED IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS AT AIRPORT 
                   SECURITY CHECKPOINTS; NOTIFICATION TO 
                   IMMIGRATION AGENCIES.

       (a) In General.--The Administrator may not accept as valid 
     proof of identification a prohibited identification document 
     at an airport security checkpoint.
       (b) Notification to Immigration Agencies.--If an individual 
     presents a prohibited identification document to an officer 
     of the Transportation Security Administration at an airport 
     security checkpoint, the Administrator shall promptly notify 
     the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the 
     Director of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the head 
     of the appropriate local law enforcement agency to determine 
     whether the individual is in violation of any term of release 
     from the custody of any such agency.
       (c) Entry Into Sterile Areas.--
       (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), if an 
     individual is found to be in violation of any term of release 
     under subsection (b), the Administrator may not permit such 
     individual to enter a sterile area.
       (2) Exception.--An individual presenting a prohibited 
     identification document under this section may enter a 
     sterile area if the individual--
       (A) is leaving the United States for the purposes of 
     removal or deportation; or
       (B) presents a covered identification document.
       (d) Collection of Biometric Information From Certain 
     Individuals Seeking Entry Into the Sterile Area of an 
     Airport.--Beginning not later than 120 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall collect 
     biometric information from an individual described in 
     subsection (e) prior to authorizing such individual to enter 
     into a sterile area.
       (e) Individual Described.--An individual described in this 
     subsection is an individual who--
       (1) is seeking entry into the sterile area of an airport;
       (2) does not present a covered identification document; and
       (3) the Administrator cannot verify is a national of the 
     United States.
       (f) Participation in IDENT.--Beginning not later than 120 
     days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
     Administrator, in coordination with the Secretary, shall 
     submit biometric data collected under this section to the 
     Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT).
       (g) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the 
     Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration.
       (2) Biometric information.--The term ``biometric 
     information'' means any of the following:
       (A) A fingerprint.
       (B) A palm print.
       (C) A photograph, including--
       (i) a photograph of an individual's face for use with 
     facial recognition technology; and
       (ii) a photograph of any physical or anatomical feature, 
     such as a scar, skin mark, or tattoo.
       (D) A signature.
       (E) A voice print.
       (F) An iris image.
       (3) Covered identification document.--The term ``covered 
     identification document'' means any of the following, if the 
     document is valid and unexpired:
       (A) A United States passport or passport card.
       (B) A biometrically secure card issued by a trusted 
     traveler program of the Department of Homeland Security, 
     including--
       (i) Global Entry;
       (ii) Nexus;
       (iii) Secure Electronic Network for Travelers Rapid 
     Inspection (SENTRI); and
       (iv) Free and Secure Trade (FAST).
       (C) An identification card issued by the Department of 
     Defense, including such a card issued to a dependent.
       (D) Any document required for admission to the United 
     States under section 211(a) of the Immigration and 
     Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1181(a)).
       (E) An enhanced driver's license issued by a State.
       (F) A photo identification card issued by a federally 
     recognized Indian Tribe.
       (G) A personal identity verification credential issued in 
     accordance with Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12.
       (H) A driver's license issued by a province of Canada.
       (I) A Secure Certificate of Indian Status issued by the 
     Government of Canada.
       (J) A Transportation Worker Identification Credential.
       (K) A Merchant Mariner Credential issued by the Coast 
     Guard.
       (L) A Veteran Health Identification Card issued by the 
     Department of Veterans Affairs.
       (M) Any other document the Administrator determines, 
     pursuant to a rule making in accordance with section 553 of 
     title 5, United States Code, will satisfy the identity 
     verification procedures of the Transportation Security 
     Administration.
       (4) Immigration laws.--The term ``immigration laws'' has 
     the meaning given that term in section 101 of the Immigration 
     and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101).
       (5) Prohibited identification document.--The term 
     ``prohibited identification document'' means any of the 
     following (or any applicable successor form):
       (A) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Form I-200, 
     Warrant for Arrest of Alien.

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       (B) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Form I-205, 
     Warrant of Removal/Deportation.
       (C) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Form I-220A, 
     Order of Release on Recognizance.
       (D) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Form I-220B, 
     Order of Supervision.
       (E) Department of Homeland Security Form I-862, Notice to 
     Appear.
       (F) U.S. Customs and Border Protection Form I-94, Arrival/
     Departure Record (including a print-out of an electronic 
     record).
       (G) Department of Homeland Security Form I-385, Notice to 
     Report.
       (H) Any document that directs an individual to report to 
     the Department of Homeland Security.
       (I) Any Department of Homeland Security work authorization 
     or employment verification document.
       (6) Sterile area.--The term ``sterile area'' has the 
     meaning given that term in section 1540.5 of title 49, Code 
     of Federal Regulations, or any successor regulation.

     SEC. 121. PROHIBITION AGAINST ANY COVID-19 VACCINE MANDATE OR 
                   ADVERSE ACTION AGAINST DHS EMPLOYEES.

       (a) Limitation on Imposition of New Mandate.--The Secretary 
     may not issue any COVID-19 vaccine mandate unless Congress 
     expressly authorizes such a mandate.
       (b) Prohibition on Adverse Action.--The Secretary may not 
     take any adverse action against a Department employee based 
     solely on the refusal of such employee to receive a vaccine 
     for COVID-19.
       (c) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall report to the 
     Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Governmental Affairs of the Senate on the following:
       (1) The number of Department employees who were terminated 
     or resigned due to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
       (2) An estimate of the cost to reinstate such employees.
       (3) How the Department would effectuate reinstatement of 
     such employees.
       (d) Retention and Development of Unvaccinated Employees.--
     The Secretary shall make every effort to retain Department 
     employees who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 and provide 
     such employees with professional development, promotion and 
     leadership opportunities, and consideration equal to that of 
     their peers.

     SEC. 122. CBP ONE APP LIMITATION.

       (a) Limitation.--The Department may use the CBP One Mobile 
     Application or any other similar program, application, 
     internet-based portal, website, device, or initiative only 
     for inspection of perishable cargo.
       (b) Report.--Not later than 60 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Commissioner shall report to the 
     Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Governmental Affairs of the Senate the date on which CBP 
     began using CBP One to allow aliens to schedule interviews at 
     land ports of entry, how many aliens have scheduled 
     interviews at land ports of entry using CBP One, the 
     nationalities of such aliens, and the stated final 
     destinations of such aliens within the United States, if any.

     SEC. 123. REPORT ON MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS.

       Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, Congress shall commission a report that contains 
     the following:
       (1) A national strategy to address Mexican drug cartels, 
     and a determination regarding whether there should be a 
     designation established to address such cartels.
       (2) Information relating to actions by such cartels that 
     causes harm to the United States.

     SEC. 124. GAO STUDY ON COSTS INCURRED BY STATES TO SECURE THE 
                   SOUTHWEST BORDER.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the 
     United States shall conduct a study to examine the costs 
     incurred by individual States as a result of actions taken by 
     such States in support of the Federal mission to secure the 
     southwest border, and the feasibility of a program to 
     reimburse such States for such costs.
       (b) Contents.--The study required under subsection (a) 
     shall include consideration of the following:
       (1) Actions taken by the Department of Homeland Security 
     that have contributed to costs described in such subsection 
     incurred by States to secure the border in the absence of 
     Federal action, including the termination of the Migrant 
     Protection Protocols and cancellation of border wall 
     construction.
       (2) Actions taken by individual States along the southwest 
     border to secure their borders, and the costs associated with 
     such actions.
       (3) The feasibility of a program within the Department of 
     Homeland Security to reimburse States for the costs incurred 
     in support of the Federal mission to secure the southwest 
     border.

     SEC. 125. REPORT BY INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
                   HOMELAND SECURITY.

       (a) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act and annually thereafter for five years, 
     the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security 
     shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the 
     House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland 
     Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report 
     examining the economic and security impact of mass migration 
     to municipalities and States along the southwest border. Such 
     report shall include information regarding costs incurred by 
     the following:
       (1) State and local law enforcement to secure the southwest 
     border.
       (2) Public school districts to educate students who are 
     aliens unlawfully present in the United States.
       (3) Healthcare providers to provide care to aliens 
     unlawfully present in the United States who have not paid for 
     such care.
       (4) Farmers and ranchers due to migration impacts to their 
     properties.
       (b) Consultation.--To produce the report required under 
     subsection (a), the Inspector General of the Department of 
     Homeland Security shall consult with the individuals and 
     representatives of the entities described in paragraphs (1) 
     through (4) of such subsection.

     SEC. 126. OFFSETTING AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       (a) Office of the Secretary and Emergency Management.--No 
     funds are authorized to be appropriated for the Alternatives 
     to Detention Case Management Pilot Program or the Office of 
     the Immigration Detention Ombudsman for the Office of the 
     Secretary and Emergency Management of the Department of 
     Homeland Security.
       (b) Management Directorate.--No funds are authorized to be 
     appropriated for electric vehicles or St. Elizabeths campus 
     construction for the Management Directorate of the Department 
     of Homeland Security.
       (c) Intelligence, Analysis, and Situational Awareness.--
     There is authorized to be appropriated $216,000,000 for 
     Intelligence, Analysis, and Situational Awareness of the 
     Department of Homeland Security.
       (d) U.S. Customs and Border Protection.--No funds are 
     authorized to be appropriated for the Shelter Services 
     Program for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

     SEC. 127. REPORT TO CONGRESS ON FOREIGN TERRORIST 
                   ORGANIZATIONS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter for five 
     years, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit to the 
     Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Governmental Affairs of the Senate an assessment of foreign 
     terrorist organizations attempting to move their members or 
     affiliates into the United States through the southern, 
     northern, or maritime border.
       (b) Definition.--In this section, the term ``foreign 
     terrorist organization'' means an organization described in 
     section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
     1189).

     SEC. 128. ASSESSMENT BY INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE DEPARTMENT 
                   OF HOMELAND SECURITY ON THE MITIGATION OF 
                   UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS AT THE SOUTHWEST 
                   BORDER.

       Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland 
     Security shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security 
     of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland 
     Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate an assessment 
     of U.S. Customs and Border Protection's ability to mitigate 
     unmanned aircraft systems at the southwest border. Such 
     assessment shall include information regarding any 
     intervention between January 1, 2021, and the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, by any Federal agency affecting in any 
     manner U.S. Customs and Border Protection's authority to so 
     mitigate such systems.

        DIVISION D--IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS

              TITLE I--ASYLUM REFORM AND BORDER PROTECTION

     SEC. 101. SAFE THIRD COUNTRY.

       Section 208(a)(2)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
     (8 U.S.C. 1158(a)(2)(A)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``if the Attorney General determines'' and 
     inserting ``if the Attorney General or the Secretary of 
     Homeland Security determines--'';
       (2) by striking ``that the alien may be removed'' and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(i) that the alien may be removed'';
       (3) by striking ``, pursuant to a bilateral or multilateral 
     agreement, to'' and inserting ``to'';
       (4) by inserting ``or the Secretary, on a case by case 
     basis,'' before ``finds that'';
       (5) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``; 
     or''; and
       (6) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(ii) that the alien entered, attempted to enter, or 
     arrived in the United States after transiting through at 
     least one country outside the alien's country of citizenship, 
     nationality, or last lawful habitual residence en route to 
     the United States, unless--
       ``(I) the alien demonstrates that he or she applied for 
     protection from persecution or torture in at least one 
     country outside the alien's country of citizenship, 
     nationality, or last lawful habitual residence through which 
     the alien transited en route to the United States, and the 
     alien received a final judgment denying the alien protection 
     in each country;
       ``(II) the alien demonstrates that he or she was a victim 
     of a severe form of trafficking in which a commercial sex act 
     was induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the 
     person induced to perform such act was under the age of 18 
     years; or in which the

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     trafficking included the recruitment, harboring, 
     transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor 
     or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for 
     the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, 
     debt bondage, or slavery, and was unable to apply for 
     protection from persecution in each country through which the 
     alien transited en route to the United States as a result of 
     such severe form of trafficking; or
       ``(III) the only countries through which the alien 
     transited en route to the United States were, at the time of 
     the transit, not parties to the 1951 United Nations 
     Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the 1967 
     Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, or the United 
     Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman 
     or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.''.

     SEC. 102. CREDIBLE FEAR INTERVIEWS.

       Section 235(b)(1)(B)(v) of the Immigration and Nationality 
     Act (8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(1)(B)(v)) is amended by striking 
     ``there is a significant possibility'' and all that follows, 
     and inserting ``, taking into account the credibility of the 
     statements made by the alien in support of the alien's claim, 
     as determined pursuant to section 208(b)(1)(B)(iii), and such 
     other facts as are known to the officer, the alien more 
     likely than not could establish eligibility for asylum under 
     section 208, and it is more likely than not that the 
     statements made by, and on behalf of, the alien in support of 
     the alien's claim are true.''.

     SEC. 103. CLARIFICATION OF ASYLUM ELIGIBILITY.

       (a) In General.--Section 208(b)(1)(A) of the Immigration 
     and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158(b)(1)(A)) is amended by 
     inserting after ``section 101(a)(42)(A)'' the following: 
     ``(in accordance with the rules set forth in this section), 
     and is eligible to apply for asylum under subsection (a)''.
       (b) Place of Arrival.--Section 208(a)(1) of the Immigration 
     and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158(a)(1)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``or who arrives in the United States 
     (whether or not at a designated port of arrival and including 
     an alien who is brought to the United States after having 
     been interdicted in international or United States 
     waters),''; and
       (2) by inserting after ``United States'' the following: 
     ``and has arrived in the United States at a port of entry 
     (including an alien who is brought to the United States after 
     having been interdicted in international or United States 
     waters),''.

     SEC. 104. EXCEPTIONS.

       Paragraph (2) of section 208(b) of the Immigration and 
     Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158(b)(2)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(2) Exceptions.--
       ``(A) In general.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply to an 
     alien if the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Attorney 
     General determines that--
       ``(i) the alien ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise 
     participated in the persecution of any person on account of 
     race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular 
     social group, or political opinion;
       ``(ii) the alien has been convicted of any felony under 
     Federal, State, tribal, or local law;
       ``(iii) the alien has been convicted of any misdemeanor 
     offense under Federal, State, tribal, or local law 
     involving--

       ``(I) the unlawful possession or use of an identification 
     document, authentication feature, or false identification 
     document (as those terms and phrases are defined in the 
     jurisdiction where the conviction occurred), unless the alien 
     can establish that the conviction resulted from circumstances 
     showing that--

       ``(aa) the document or feature was presented before 
     boarding a common carrier;
       ``(bb) the document or feature related to the alien's 
     eligibility to enter the United States;
       ``(cc) the alien used the document or feature to depart a 
     country wherein the alien has claimed a fear of persecution; 
     and
       ``(dd) the alien claimed a fear of persecution without 
     delay upon presenting himself or herself to an immigration 
     officer upon arrival at a United States port of entry;

       ``(II) the unlawful receipt of a Federal public benefit (as 
     defined in section 401(c) of the Personal Responsibility and 
     Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 
     1611(c))), from a Federal entity, or the unlawful receipt of 
     similar public benefits from a State, tribal, or local 
     entity; or
       ``(III) possession or trafficking of a controlled substance 
     or controlled substance paraphernalia, as those phrases are 
     defined under the law of the jurisdiction where the 
     conviction occurred, other than a single offense involving 
     possession for one's own use of 30 grams or less of marijuana 
     (as marijuana is defined under the law of the jurisdiction 
     where the conviction occurred);

       ``(iv) the alien has been convicted of an offense arising 
     under paragraph (1)(A) or (2) of section 274(a), or under 
     section 276;
       ``(v) the alien has been convicted of a Federal, State, 
     tribal, or local crime that the Attorney General or Secretary 
     of Homeland Security knows, or has reason to believe, was 
     committed in support, promotion, or furtherance of the 
     activity of a criminal street gang (as defined under the law 
     of the jurisdiction where the conviction occurred or in 
     section 521(a) of title 18, United States Code);
       ``(vi) the alien has been convicted of an offense for 
     driving while intoxicated or impaired, as those terms are 
     defined under the law of the jurisdiction where the 
     conviction occurred (including a conviction for driving while 
     under the influence of or impaired by alcohol or drugs), 
     without regard to whether the conviction is classified as a 
     misdemeanor or felony under Federal, State, tribal, or local 
     law, in which such intoxicated or impaired driving was a 
     cause of serious bodily injury or death of another person;
       ``(vii) the alien has been convicted of more than one 
     offense for driving while intoxicated or impaired, as those 
     terms are defined under the law of the jurisdiction where the 
     conviction occurred (including a conviction for driving while 
     under the influence of or impaired by alcohol or drugs), 
     without regard to whether the conviction is classified as a 
     misdemeanor or felony under Federal, State, tribal, or local 
     law;
       ``(viii) the alien has been convicted of a crime--

       ``(I) that involves conduct amounting to a crime of 
     stalking;
       ``(II) of child abuse, child neglect, or child abandonment; 
     or
       ``(III) that involves conduct amounting to a domestic 
     assault or battery offense, including--

       ``(aa) a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, as 
     described in section 921(a)(33) of title 18, United States 
     Code;
       ``(bb) a crime of domestic violence, as described in 
     section 40002(a)(12) of the Violence Against Women Act of 
     1994 (34 U.S.C. 12291(a)(12)); or
       ``(cc) any crime based on conduct in which the alien 
     harassed, coerced, intimidated, voluntarily or recklessly 
     used (or threatened to use) force or violence against, or 
     inflicted physical injury or physical pain, however slight, 
     upon a person--
       ``(AA) who is a current or former spouse of the alien;
       ``(BB) with whom the alien shares a child;
       ``(CC) who is cohabitating with, or who has cohabitated 
     with, the alien as a spouse;
       ``(DD) who is similarly situated to a spouse of the alien 
     under the domestic or family violence laws of the 
     jurisdiction where the offense occurred; or
       ``(EE) who is protected from that alien's acts under the 
     domestic or family violence laws of the United States or of 
     any State, tribal government, or unit of local government;
       ``(ix) the alien has engaged in acts of battery or extreme 
     cruelty upon a person and the person--

       ``(I) is a current or former spouse of the alien;
       ``(II) shares a child with the alien;
       ``(III) cohabitates or has cohabitated with the alien as a 
     spouse;
       ``(IV) is similarly situated to a spouse of the alien under 
     the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction 
     where the offense occurred; or
       ``(V) is protected from that alien's acts under the 
     domestic or family violence laws of the United States or of 
     any State, tribal government, or unit of local government;

       ``(x) the alien, having been convicted by a final judgment 
     of a particularly serious crime, constitutes a danger to the 
     community of the United States;
       ``(xi) there are serious reasons for believing that the 
     alien has committed a serious nonpolitical crime outside the 
     United States prior to the arrival of the alien in the United 
     States;
       ``(xii) there are reasonable grounds for regarding the 
     alien as a danger to the security of the United States;
       ``(xiii) the alien is described in subclause (I), (II), 
     (III), (IV), or (VI) of section 212(a)(3)(B)(i) or section 
     237(a)(4)(B) (relating to terrorist activity), unless, in the 
     case only of an alien inadmissible under subclause (IV) of 
     section 212(a)(3)(B)(i), the Secretary of Homeland Security 
     or the Attorney General determines, in the Secretary's or the 
     Attorney General's discretion, that there are not reasonable 
     grounds for regarding the alien as a danger to the security 
     of the United States;
       ``(xiv) the alien was firmly resettled in another country 
     prior to arriving in the United States; or
       ``(xv) there are reasonable grounds for concluding the 
     alien could avoid persecution by relocating to another part 
     of the alien's country of nationality or, in the case of an 
     alien having no nationality, another part of the alien's 
     country of last habitual residence.
       ``(B) Special rules.--
       ``(i) Particularly serious crime; serious nonpolitical 
     crime outside the united states.--

       ``(I) In general.--For purposes of subparagraph (A)(x), the 
     Attorney General or Secretary of Homeland Security, in their 
     discretion, may determine that a conviction constitutes a 
     particularly serious crime based on--

       ``(aa) the nature of the conviction;
       ``(bb) the type of sentence imposed; or
       ``(cc) the circumstances and underlying facts of the 
     conviction.

       ``(II) Determination.--In making a determination under 
     subclause (I), the Attorney General or Secretary of Homeland 
     Security may consider all reliable information and is not 
     limited to facts found by the criminal court or provided in 
     the underlying record of conviction.
       ``(III) Treatment of felonies.--In making a determination 
     under subclause (I), an alien who has been convicted of a 
     felony (as defined under this section) or an aggravated 
     felony (as defined under section 101(a)(43)),

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     shall be considered to have been convicted of a particularly 
     serious crime.
       ``(IV) Interpol red notice.--In making a determination 
     under subparagraph (A)(xi), an Interpol Red Notice may 
     constitute reliable evidence that the alien has committed a 
     serious nonpolitical crime outside the United States.

       ``(ii) Crimes and exceptions.--

       ``(I) Driving while intoxicated or impaired.--A finding 
     under subparagraph (A)(vi) does not require the Attorney 
     General or Secretary of Homeland Security to find the first 
     conviction for driving while intoxicated or impaired 
     (including a conviction for driving while under the influence 
     of or impaired by alcohol or drugs) as a predicate offense. 
     The Attorney General or Secretary of Homeland Security need 
     only make a factual determination that the alien previously 
     was convicted for driving while intoxicated or impaired as 
     those terms are defined under the jurisdiction where the 
     conviction occurred (including a conviction for driving while 
     under the influence of or impaired by alcohol or drugs).
       ``(II) Stalking and other crimes.--In making a 
     determination under subparagraph (A)(viii), including 
     determining the existence of a domestic relationship between 
     the alien and the victim, the underlying conduct of the crime 
     may be considered, and the Attorney General or Secretary of 
     Homeland Security is not limited to facts found by the 
     criminal court or provided in the underlying record of 
     conviction.
       ``(III) Battery or extreme cruelty.--In making a 
     determination under subparagraph (A)(ix), the phrase `battery 
     or extreme cruelty' includes--

       ``(aa) any act or threatened act of violence, including any 
     forceful detention, which results or threatens to result in 
     physical or mental injury;
       ``(bb) psychological or sexual abuse or exploitation, 
     including rape, molestation, incest, or forced prostitution, 
     shall be considered acts of violence; and
       ``(cc) other abusive acts, including acts that, in and of 
     themselves, may not initially appear violent, but that are a 
     part of an overall pattern of violence.

       ``(IV) Exception for victims of domestic violence.--An 
     alien who was convicted of an offense described in clause 
     (viii) or (ix) of subparagraph (A) is not ineligible for 
     asylum on that basis if the alien satisfies the criteria 
     under section 237(a)(7)(A).

       ``(C) Specific circumstances.--Paragraph (1) shall not 
     apply to an alien whose claim is based on--
       ``(i) personal animus or retribution, including personal 
     animus in which the alleged persecutor has not targeted, or 
     manifested an animus against, other members of an alleged 
     particular social group in addition to the member who has 
     raised the claim at issue;
       ``(ii) the applicant's generalized disapproval of, 
     disagreement with, or opposition to criminal, terrorist, 
     gang, guerilla, or other non-state organizations absent 
     expressive behavior in furtherance of a discrete cause 
     against such organizations related to control of a State or 
     expressive behavior that is antithetical to the State or a 
     legal unit of the State;
       ``(iii) the applicant's resistance to recruitment or 
     coercion by guerrilla, criminal, gang, terrorist, or other 
     non-state organizations;
       ``(iv) the targeting of the applicant for criminal activity 
     for financial gain based on wealth or affluence or 
     perceptions of wealth or affluence;
       ``(v) the applicant's criminal activity; or
       ``(vi) the applicant's perceived, past or present, gang 
     affiliation.
       ``(D) Definitions and clarifications.--
       ``(i) Definitions.--For purposes of this paragraph:

       ``(I) Felony.--The term `felony' means--

       ``(aa) any crime defined as a felony by the relevant 
     jurisdiction (Federal, State, tribal, or local) of 
     conviction; or
       ``(bb) any crime punishable by more than one year of 
     imprisonment.

       ``(II) Misdemeanor.--The term `misdemeanor' means--

       ``(aa) any crime defined as a misdemeanor by the relevant 
     jurisdiction (Federal, State, tribal, or local) of 
     conviction; or
       ``(bb) any crime not punishable by more than one year of 
     imprisonment.
       ``(ii) Clarifications.--

       ``(I) Construction.--For purposes of this paragraph, 
     whether any activity or conviction also may constitute a 
     basis for removal is immaterial to a determination of asylum 
     eligibility.
       ``(II) Attempt, conspiracy, or solicitation.--For purposes 
     of this paragraph, all references to a criminal offense or 
     criminal conviction shall be deemed to include any attempt, 
     conspiracy, or solicitation to commit the offense or any 
     other inchoate form of the offense.
       ``(III) Effect of certain orders.--

       ``(aa) In general.--No order vacating a conviction, 
     modifying a sentence, clarifying a sentence, or otherwise 
     altering a conviction or sentence shall have any effect under 
     this paragraph unless the Attorney General or Secretary of 
     Homeland Security determines that--
       ``(AA) the court issuing the order had jurisdiction and 
     authority to do so; and
       ``(BB) the order was not entered for rehabilitative 
     purposes or for purposes of ameliorating the immigration 
     consequences of the conviction or sentence.
       ``(bb) Ameliorating immigration consequences.--For purposes 
     of item (aa)(BB), the order shall be presumed to be for the 
     purpose of ameliorating immigration consequences if--
       ``(AA) the order was entered after the initiation of any 
     proceeding to remove the alien from the United States; or
       ``(BB) the alien moved for the order more than one year 
     after the date of the original order of conviction or 
     sentencing, whichever is later.
       ``(cc) Authority of immigration judge.--An immigration 
     judge is not limited to consideration only of material 
     included in any order vacating a conviction, modifying a 
     sentence, or clarifying a sentence to determine whether such 
     order should be given any effect under this paragraph, but 
     may consider such additional information as the immigration 
     judge determines appropriate.
       ``(E) Additional limitations.--The Secretary of Homeland 
     Security or the Attorney General may by regulation establish 
     additional limitations and conditions, consistent with this 
     section, under which an alien shall be ineligible for asylum 
     under paragraph (1).
       ``(F) No judicial review.--There shall be no judicial 
     review of a determination of the Secretary of Homeland 
     Security or the Attorney General under subparagraph 
     (A)(xiii).''.

     SEC. 105. EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZATION.

       Paragraph (2) of section 208(d) of the Immigration and 
     Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158(d)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(2) Employment authorization.--
       ``(A) Authorization permitted.--An applicant for asylum is 
     not entitled to employment authorization, but such 
     authorization may be provided under regulation by the 
     Secretary of Homeland Security. An applicant who is not 
     otherwise eligible for employment authorization shall not be 
     granted such authorization prior to the date that is 180 days 
     after the date of filing of the application for asylum.
       ``(B) Termination.--Each grant of employment authorization 
     under subparagraph (A), and any renewal or extension thereof, 
     shall be valid for a period of 6 months, except that such 
     authorization, renewal, or extension shall terminate prior to 
     the end of such 6 month period as follows:
       ``(i) Immediately following the denial of an asylum 
     application by an asylum officer, unless the case is referred 
     to an immigration judge.
       ``(ii) 30 days after the date on which an immigration judge 
     denies an asylum application, unless the alien timely appeals 
     to the Board of Immigration Appeals.
       ``(iii) Immediately following the denial by the Board of 
     Immigration Appeals of an appeal of a denial of an asylum 
     application.
       ``(C) Renewal.--The Secretary of Homeland Security may not 
     grant, renew, or extend employment authorization to an alien 
     if the alien was previously granted employment authorization 
     under subparagraph (A), and the employment authorization was 
     terminated pursuant to a circumstance described in 
     subparagraph (B)(i), (ii), or (iii), unless a Federal court 
     of appeals remands the alien's case to the Board of 
     Immigration Appeals.
       ``(D) Ineligibility.--The Secretary of Homeland Security 
     may not grant employment authorization to an alien under this 
     paragraph if the alien--
       ``(i) is ineligible for asylum under subsection (b)(2)(A); 
     or
       ``(ii) entered or attempted to enter the United States at a 
     place and time other than lawfully through a United States 
     port of entry.''.

     SEC. 106. ASYLUM FEES.

       Paragraph (3) of section 208(d) of the Immigration and 
     Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158(d)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(3) Fees.--
       ``(A) Application fee.--A fee of not less than $50 for each 
     application for asylum shall be imposed. Such fee shall not 
     exceed the cost of adjudicating the application. Such fee 
     shall not apply to an unaccompanied alien child who files an 
     asylum application in proceedings under section 240.
       ``(B) Employment authorization.--A fee may also be imposed 
     for the consideration of an application for employment 
     authorization under this section and for adjustment of status 
     under section 209(b). Such a fee shall not exceed the cost of 
     adjudicating the application.
       ``(C) Payment.--Fees under this paragraph may be assessed 
     and paid over a period of time or by installments.
       ``(D) Rule of construction.--Nothing in this paragraph 
     shall be construed to limit the authority of the Attorney 
     General or Secretary of Homeland Security to set adjudication 
     and naturalization fees in accordance with section 286(m).''.

     SEC. 107. RULES FOR DETERMINING ASYLUM ELIGIBILITY.

       Section 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
     U.S.C. 1158) is amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(f) Rules for Determining Asylum Eligibility.--In making 
     a determination under subsection (b)(1)(A) with respect to 
     whether an alien is a refugee within the meaning of section 
     101(a)(42)(A), the following shall apply:
       ``(1) Particular social group.--The Secretary of Homeland 
     Security or the Attorney General shall not determine that an 
     alien is a member of a particular social group unless the 
     alien articulates on the record, or provides a basis on the 
     record for determining,

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     the definition and boundaries of the alleged particular 
     social group, establishes that the particular social group 
     exists independently from the alleged persecution, and 
     establishes that the alien's claim of membership in a 
     particular social group does not involve--
       ``(A) past or present criminal activity or association 
     (including gang membership);
       ``(B) presence in a country with generalized violence or a 
     high crime rate;
       ``(C) being the subject of a recruitment effort by 
     criminal, terrorist, or persecutory groups;
       ``(D) the targeting of the applicant for criminal activity 
     for financial gain based on perceptions of wealth or 
     affluence;
       ``(E) interpersonal disputes of which governmental 
     authorities in the relevant society or region were unaware or 
     uninvolved;
       ``(F) private criminal acts of which governmental 
     authorities in the relevant society or region were unaware or 
     uninvolved;
       ``(G) past or present terrorist activity or association;
       ``(H) past or present persecutory activity or association; 
     or
       ``(I) status as an alien returning from the United States.
       ``(2) Political opinion.--The Secretary of Homeland 
     Security or the Attorney General may not determine that an 
     alien holds a political opinion with respect to which the 
     alien is subject to persecution if the political opinion is 
     constituted solely by generalized disapproval of, 
     disagreement with, or opposition to criminal, terrorist, 
     gang, guerilla, or other non-state organizations and does not 
     include expressive behavior in furtherance of a cause against 
     such organizations related to efforts by the State to control 
     such organizations or behavior that is antithetical to or 
     otherwise opposes the ruling legal entity of the State or a 
     unit thereof.
       ``(3) Persecution.--The Secretary of Homeland Security or 
     the Attorney General may not determine that an alien has been 
     subject to persecution or has a well-founded fear of 
     persecution based only on--
       ``(A) the existence of laws or government policies that are 
     unenforced or infrequently enforced, unless there is credible 
     evidence that such a law or policy has been or would be 
     applied to the applicant personally; or
       ``(B) the conduct of rogue foreign government officials 
     acting outside the scope of their official capacity.
       ``(4) Discretionary determination.--
       ``(A) Adverse discretionary factors.--The Secretary of 
     Homeland Security or the Attorney General may only grant 
     asylum to an alien if the alien establishes that he or she 
     warrants a favorable exercise of discretion. In making such a 
     determination, the Attorney General or Secretary of Homeland 
     Security shall consider, if applicable, an alien's use of 
     fraudulent documents to enter the United States, unless the 
     alien arrived in the United States by air, sea, or land 
     directly from the applicant's home country without transiting 
     through any other country.
       ``(B) Favorable exercise of discretion not permitted.--
     Except as provided in subparagraph (C), the Attorney General 
     or Secretary of Homeland Security shall not favorably 
     exercise discretion under this section for any alien who--
       ``(i) has accrued more than one year of unlawful presence 
     in the United States, as defined in sections 212(a)(9)(B)(ii) 
     and (iii), prior to filing an application for asylum;
       ``(ii) at the time the asylum application is filed with the 
     immigration court or is referred from the Department of 
     Homeland Security, has--

       ``(I) failed to timely file (or timely file a request for 
     an extension of time to file) any required Federal, State, or 
     local income tax returns;
       ``(II) failed to satisfy any outstanding Federal, State, or 
     local tax obligations; or
       ``(III) income that would result in tax liability under 
     section 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and that was 
     not reported to the Internal Revenue Service;

       ``(iii) has had two or more prior asylum applications 
     denied for any reason;
       ``(iv) has withdrawn a prior asylum application with 
     prejudice or been found to have abandoned a prior asylum 
     application;
       ``(v) failed to attend an interview regarding his or her 
     asylum application with the Department of Homeland Security, 
     unless the alien shows by a preponderance of the evidence 
     that--

       ``(I) exceptional circumstances prevented the alien from 
     attending the interview; or
       ``(II) the interview notice was not mailed to the last 
     address provided by the alien or the alien's representative 
     and neither the alien nor the alien's representative received 
     notice of the interview; or

       ``(vi) was subject to a final order of removal, 
     deportation, or exclusion and did not file a motion to reopen 
     to seek asylum based on changed country conditions within one 
     year of the change in country conditions.
       ``(C) Exceptions.--If one or more of the adverse 
     discretionary factors set forth in subparagraph (B) are 
     present, the Attorney General or the Secretary, may, 
     notwithstanding such subparagraph (B), favorably exercise 
     discretion under section 208--
       ``(i) in extraordinary circumstances, such as those 
     involving national security or foreign policy considerations; 
     or
       ``(ii) if the alien, by clear and convincing evidence, 
     demonstrates that the denial of the application for asylum 
     would result in exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to 
     the alien.
       ``(5) Limitation.--If the Secretary or the Attorney General 
     determines that an alien fails to satisfy the requirement 
     under paragraph (1), the alien may not be granted asylum 
     based on membership in a particular social group, and may not 
     appeal the determination of the Secretary or Attorney 
     General, as applicable. A determination under this paragraph 
     shall not serve as the basis for any motion to reopen or 
     reconsider an application for asylum or withholding of 
     removal for any reason, including a claim of ineffective 
     assistance of counsel, unless the alien complies with the 
     procedural requirements for such a motion and demonstrates 
     that counsel's failure to define, or provide a basis for 
     defining, a formulation of a particular social group was both 
     not a strategic choice and constituted egregious conduct.
       ``(6) Stereotypes.--Evidence offered in support of an 
     application for asylum that promotes cultural stereotypes 
     about a country, its inhabitants, or an alleged persecutor, 
     including stereotypes based on race, religion, nationality, 
     or gender, shall not be admissible in adjudicating that 
     application, except that evidence that an alleged persecutor 
     holds stereotypical views of the applicant shall be 
     admissible.
       ``(7) Definitions.--In this section:
       ``(A) The term `membership in a particular social group' 
     means membership in a group that is--
       ``(i) composed of members who share a common immutable 
     characteristic;
       ``(ii) defined with particularity; and
       ``(iii) socially distinct within the society in question.
       ``(B) The term `political opinion' means an ideal or 
     conviction in support of the furtherance of a discrete cause 
     related to political control of a state or a unit thereof.
       ``(C) The term `persecution' means the infliction of a 
     severe level of harm constituting an exigent threat by the 
     government of a country or by persons or an organization that 
     the government was unable or unwilling to control. Such term 
     does not include--
       ``(i) generalized harm or violence that arises out of 
     civil, criminal, or military strife in a country;
       ``(ii) all treatment that the United States regards as 
     unfair, offensive, unjust, unlawful, or unconstitutional;
       ``(iii) intermittent harassment, including brief 
     detentions;
       ``(iv) threats with no actual effort to carry out the 
     threats, except that particularized threats of severe harm of 
     an immediate and menacing nature made by an identified entity 
     may constitute persecution; or
       ``(v) non-severe economic harm or property damage.''.

     SEC. 108. FIRM RESETTLEMENT.

       Section 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
     U.S.C. 1158), as amended by this title, is further amended by 
     adding at the end the following:
       ``(g) Firm Resettlement.--In determining whether an alien 
     was firmly resettled in another country prior to arriving in 
     the United States under subsection (b)(2)(A)(xiv), the 
     following shall apply:
       ``(1) In general.--An alien shall be considered to have 
     firmly resettled in another country if, after the events 
     giving rise to the alien's asylum claim--
       ``(A) the alien resided in a country through which the 
     alien transited prior to arriving in or entering the United 
     States and--
       ``(i) received or was eligible for any permanent legal 
     immigration status in that country;
       ``(ii) resided in such a country with any non-permanent but 
     indefinitely renewable legal immigration status (including 
     asylee, refugee, or similar status, but excluding status of a 
     tourist); or
       ``(iii) resided in such a country and could have applied 
     for and obtained an immigration status described in clause 
     (ii);
       ``(B) the alien physically resided voluntarily, and without 
     continuing to suffer persecution or torture, in any one 
     country for one year or more after departing his country of 
     nationality or last habitual residence and prior to arrival 
     in or entry into the United States, except for any time spent 
     in Mexico by an alien who is not a native or citizen of 
     Mexico solely as a direct result of being returned to Mexico 
     pursuant to section 235(b)(3) or of being subject to 
     metering; or
       ``(C) the alien is a citizen of a country other than the 
     country in which the alien alleges a fear of persecution, or 
     was a citizen of such a country in the case of an alien who 
     renounces such citizenship, and the alien was present in that 
     country after departing his country of nationality or last 
     habitual residence and prior to arrival in or entry into the 
     United States.
       ``(2) Burden of proof.--If an immigration judge determines 
     that an alien has firmly resettled in another country under 
     paragraph (1), the alien shall bear the burden of proving the 
     bar does not apply.
       ``(3) Firm resettlement of parent.--An alien shall be 
     presumed to have been firmly resettled in another country if 
     the alien's parent was firmly resettled in another country, 
     the parent's resettlement occurred before the alien turned 18 
     years of age, and the alien resided with such parent at the 
     time of the firm resettlement, unless the alien establishes 
     that he or she could not have derived any permanent legal 
     immigration status or any non-permanent but indefinitely 
     renewable legal immigration status (including asylum, 
     refugee, or similar status, but excluding status of a 
     tourist) from the alien's parent.''.

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     SEC. 109. NOTICE CONCERNING FRIVOLOUS ASYLUM APPLICATIONS.

       (a) In General.--Section 208(d)(4) of the Immigration and 
     Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158(d)(4)) is amended--
       (1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting 
     ``the Secretary of Homeland Security or'' before ``the 
     Attorney General'';
       (2) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``and of the 
     consequences, under paragraph (6), of knowingly filing a 
     frivolous application for asylum; and'' and inserting a 
     semicolon;
       (3) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (4) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(C) ensure that a written warning appears on the asylum 
     application advising the alien of the consequences of filing 
     a frivolous application and serving as notice to the alien of 
     the consequence of filing a frivolous application.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 208(d)(6) of the 
     Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158(d)(6)) is 
     amended by striking ``If the'' and all that follows and 
     inserting:
       ``(A) In general.--If the Secretary of Homeland Security or 
     the Attorney General determines that an alien has knowingly 
     made a frivolous application for asylum and the alien has 
     received the notice under paragraph (4)(C), the alien shall 
     be permanently ineligible for any benefits under this 
     chapter, effective as the date of the final determination of 
     such an application.
       ``(B) Criteria.--An application is frivolous if the 
     Secretary of Homeland Security or the Attorney General 
     determines, consistent with subparagraph (C), that--
       ``(i) it is so insufficient in substance that it is clear 
     that the applicant knowingly filed the application solely or 
     in part to delay removal from the United States, to seek 
     employment authorization as an applicant for asylum pursuant 
     to regulations issued pursuant to paragraph (2), or to seek 
     issuance of a Notice to Appear in order to pursue 
     Cancellation of Removal under section 240A(b); or
       ``(ii) any of the material elements are knowingly 
     fabricated.
       ``(C) Sufficient opportunity to clarify.--In determining 
     that an application is frivolous, the Secretary or the 
     Attorney General, must be satisfied that the applicant, 
     during the course of the proceedings, has had sufficient 
     opportunity to clarify any discrepancies or implausible 
     aspects of the claim.
       ``(D) Withholding of removal not precluded.--For purposes 
     of this section, a finding that an alien filed a frivolous 
     asylum application shall not preclude the alien from seeking 
     withholding of removal under section 241(b)(3) or protection 
     pursuant to the Convention Against Torture.''.

     SEC. 110. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.

       Section 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
     U.S.C. 1158) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) in paragraph (2)(D), by inserting ``Secretary of 
     Homeland Security or the'' before ``Attorney General''; and
       (B) in paragraph (3), by inserting ``Secretary of Homeland 
     Security or the'' before ``Attorney General'';
       (2) in subsection (c)--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``Attorney General'' each 
     place such term appears and inserting ``Secretary of Homeland 
     Security'';
       (B) in paragraph (2), in the matter preceding subparagraph 
     (A), by inserting ``Secretary of Homeland Security or the'' 
     before ``Attorney General''; and
       (C) in paragraph (3), by inserting ``Secretary of Homeland 
     Security or the'' before ``Attorney General''; and
       (3) in subsection (d)--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``Secretary of Homeland 
     Security or the'' before ``Attorney General'' each place such 
     term appears; and
       (B) in paragraph (5)--
       (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``Attorney General'' 
     and inserting ``Secretary of Homeland Security''; and
       (ii) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``Secretary of 
     Homeland Security or the'' before ``Attorney General''.

     SEC. 111. REQUIREMENT FOR PROCEDURES RELATING TO CERTAIN 
                   ASYLUM APPLICATIONS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall 
     establish procedures to expedite the adjudication of asylum 
     applications for aliens--
       (1) who are subject to removal proceedings under section 
     240 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1229a); 
     and
       (2) who are nationals of a Western Hemisphere country 
     sanctioned by the United States, as described in subsection 
     (b), as of January 1, 2023.
       (b) Western Hemisphere Country Sanctioned by the United 
     States Described.--Subsection (a) shall apply only to an 
     asylum application filed by an alien who is a national of a 
     Western Hemisphere country subject to sanctions pursuant to--
       (1) the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) 
     Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6021 note);
       (2) the Reinforcing Nicaragua's Adherence to Conditions for 
     Electoral Reform Act of 2021 or the RENACER Act (50 U.S.C. 
     1701 note); or
       (3) Executive Order 13692 (80 Fed. Reg. 12747; declaring a 
     national emergency with respect to the situation in 
     Venezuela).
       (c) Applicability.--This section shall only apply to an 
     alien who files an application for asylum after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act.

             TITLE II--BORDER SAFETY AND MIGRANT PROTECTION

     SEC. 201. INSPECTION OF APPLICANTS FOR ADMISSION.

       Section 235 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
     U.S.C. 1225) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (b)--
       (A) in paragraph (1)--
       (i) in subparagraph (A)--

       (I) in clauses (i) and (ii), by striking ``section 
     212(a)(6)(C)'' inserting ``subparagraph (A) or (C) of section 
     212(a)(6)''; and
       (II) by adding at the end the following:

       ``(iv) Ineligibility for parole.--An alien described in 
     clause (i) or (ii) shall not be eligible for parole except as 
     expressly authorized pursuant to section 212(d)(5), or for 
     parole or release pursuant to section 236(a).''; and
       (ii) in subparagraph (B)--

       (I) in clause (ii), by striking ``asylum.'' and inserting 
     ``asylum and shall not be released (including pursuant to 
     parole or release pursuant to section 236(a) but excluding as 
     expressly authorized pursuant to section 212(d)(5)) other 
     than to be removed or returned to a country as described in 
     paragraph (3).''; and
       (II) in clause (iii)(IV)--

       (aa) in the header by striking ``detention'' and inserting 
     ``detention, return, or removal''; and
       (bb) by adding at the end the following: ``The alien shall 
     not be released (including pursuant to parole or release 
     pursuant to section 236(a) but excluding as expressly 
     authorized pursuant to section 212(d)(5)) other than to be 
     removed or returned to a country as described in paragraph 
     (3).'';
       (B) in paragraph (2)--
       (i) in subparagraph (A)--

       (I) by striking ``Subject to subparagraphs (B) and (C),'' 
     and inserting ``Subject to subparagraph (B) and paragraph 
     (3),''; and
       (II) by adding at the end the following: ``The alien shall 
     not be released (including pursuant to parole or release 
     pursuant to section 236(a) but excluding as expressly 
     authorized pursuant to section 212(d)(5)) other than to be 
     removed or returned to a country as described in paragraph 
     (3).''; and

       (ii) by striking subparagraph (C);
       (C) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (5); and
       (D) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
       ``(3) Return to foreign territory contiguous to the united 
     states.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Secretary of Homeland Security may 
     return to a foreign territory contiguous to the United States 
     any alien arriving on land from that territory (whether or 
     not at a designated port of entry) pending a proceeding under 
     section 240 or review of a determination under subsection 
     (b)(1)(B)(iii)(III).
       ``(B) Mandatory return.--If at any time the Secretary of 
     Homeland Security cannot--
       ``(i) comply with its obligations to detain an alien as 
     required under clauses (ii) and (iii)(IV) of subsection 
     (b)(1)(B) and subsection (b)(2)(A); or
       ``(ii) remove an alien to a country described in section 
     208(a)(2)(A),
     the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, without exception, 
     including pursuant to parole or release pursuant to section 
     236(a) but excluding as expressly authorized pursuant to 
     section 212(d)(5), return to a foreign territory contiguous 
     to the United States any alien arriving on land from that 
     territory (whether or not at a designated port of entry) 
     pending a proceeding under section 240 or review of a 
     determination under subsection (b)(1)(B)(iii)(III).
       ``(4) Enforcement by state attorneys general.--The attorney 
     general of a State, or other authorized State officer, 
     alleging a violation of the detention, return, or removal 
     requirements under paragraph (1), (2), or (3) that affects 
     such State or its residents, may bring an action against the 
     Secretary of Homeland Security on behalf of the residents of 
     the State in an appropriate United States district court to 
     obtain appropriate injunctive relief.''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(e) Authority To Prohibit Introduction of Certain 
     Aliens.--If the Secretary of Homeland Security determines, in 
     his discretion, that the prohibition of the introduction of 
     aliens who are inadmissible under subparagraph (A) or (C) of 
     section 212(a)(6) or under section 212(a)(7) at an 
     international land or maritime border of the United States is 
     necessary to achieve operational control (as defined in 
     section 2 of the Secure Fence Act of 2006 (8 U.S.C. 1701 
     note)) of such border, the Secretary may prohibit, in whole 
     or in part, the introduction of such aliens at such border 
     for such period of time as the Secretary determines is 
     necessary for such purpose.''.

     SEC. 202. OPERATIONAL DETENTION FACILITIES.

       (a) In General.--Not later than September 30, 2023, the 
     Secretary of Homeland Security shall take all necessary 
     actions to reopen or restore all U.S. Immigration and Customs 
     Enforcement detention facilities that were in operation on 
     January 20, 2021, that subsequently closed or with respect to 
     which the use was altered, reduced, or discontinued after 
     January 20, 2021. In carrying out the requirement under this 
     subsection, the Secretary may use the authority under section 
     103(a)(11) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
     1103(a)(11)).

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       (b) Specific Facilities.--The requirement under subsection 
     (a) shall include at a minimum, reopening, or restoring, the 
     following facilities:
       (1) Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia.
       (2) C. Carlos Carreiro Immigration Detention Center in 
     Bristol County, Massachusetts.
       (3) Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden, Alabama.
       (4) Glades County Detention Center in Moore Haven, Florida.
       (5) South Texas Family Residential Center.
       (c) Exception.--
       (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and 
     (3), the Secretary of Homeland Security is authorized to 
     obtain equivalent capacity for detention facilities at 
     locations other than those listed in subsection (b).
       (2) Limitation.--The Secretary may not take action under 
     paragraph (1) unless the capacity obtained would result in a 
     reduction of time and cost relative to the cost and time 
     otherwise required to obtain such capacity.
       (3) South texas family residential center.--The exception 
     under paragraph (1) shall not apply to the South Texas Family 
     Residential Center. The Secretary shall take all necessary 
     steps to modify and operate the South Texas Family 
     Residential Center in the same manner and capability it was 
     operating on January 20, 2021.
       (d) Periodic Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, and every 90 days thereafter 
     until September 30, 2027, the Secretary of Homeland Security 
     shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
     detailed plan for and a status report on--
       (1) compliance with the deadline under subsection (a);
       (2) the increase in detention capabilities required by this 
     section--
       (A) for the 90-day period immediately preceding the date 
     such report is submitted; and
       (B) for the period beginning on the first day of the fiscal 
     year during which the report is submitted, and ending on the 
     date such report is submitted;
       (3) the number of detention beds that were used and the 
     number of available detention beds that were not used 
     during--
       (A) the 90-day period immediately preceding the date such 
     report is submitted; and
       (B) the period beginning on the first day of the fiscal 
     year during which the report is submitted, and ending on the 
     date such report is submitted;
       (4) the number of aliens released due to a lack of 
     available detention beds; and
       (5) the resources the Department of Homeland Security needs 
     in order to comply with the requirements under this section.
       (e) Notification.--The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
     notify Congress, and include with such notification a 
     detailed description of the resources the Department of 
     Homeland Security needs in order to detain all aliens whose 
     detention is mandatory or nondiscretionary under the 
     Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.)--
       (1) not later than 5 days after all U.S. Immigration and 
     Customs Enforcement detention facilities reach 90 percent of 
     capacity;
       (2) not later than 5 days after all U.S. Immigration and 
     Customs Enforcement detention facilities reach 95 percent of 
     capacity; and
       (3) not later than 5 days after all U.S. Immigration and 
     Customs Enforcement detention facilities reach full capacity.
       (f) Appropriate Congressional Committees.--In this section, 
     the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
       (1) the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
     Representatives;
       (2) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives;
       (3) the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate; and
       (4) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.

   TITLE III--PREVENTING UNCONTROLLED MIGRATION FLOWS IN THE WESTERN 
                               HEMISPHERE

     SEC. 301. UNITED STATES POLICY REGARDING WESTERN HEMISPHERE 
                   COOPERATION ON IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM.

       It is the policy of the United States to enter into 
     agreements, accords, and memoranda of understanding with 
     countries in the Western Hemisphere, the purposes of which 
     are to advance the interests of the United States by reducing 
     costs associated with illegal immigration and to protect the 
     human capital, societal traditions, and economic growth of 
     other countries in the Western Hemisphere. It is further the 
     policy of the United States to ensure that humanitarian and 
     development assistance funding aimed at reducing illegal 
     immigration is not expended on programs that have not proven 
     to reduce illegal immigrant flows in the aggregate.

     SEC. 302. NEGOTIATIONS BY SECRETARY OF STATE.

       (a) Authorization To Negotiate.--The Secretary of State 
     shall seek to negotiate agreements, accords, and memoranda of 
     understanding between the United States, Mexico, Honduras, El 
     Salvador, Guatemala, and other countries in the Western 
     Hemisphere with respect to cooperation and burden sharing 
     required for effective regional immigration enforcement, 
     expediting legal claims by aliens for asylum, and the 
     processing, detention, and repatriation of foreign nationals 
     seeking to enter the United States unlawfully. Such 
     agreements shall be designed to facilitate a regional 
     approach to immigration enforcement and shall, at a minimum, 
     provide that--
       (1) the Government of Mexico authorize and accept the rapid 
     entrance into Mexico of nationals of countries other than 
     Mexico who seek asylum in Mexico, and process the asylum 
     claims of such nationals inside Mexico, in accordance with 
     both domestic law and international treaties and conventions 
     governing the processing of asylum claims;
       (2) the Government of Mexico authorize and accept both the 
     rapid entrance into Mexico of all nationals of countries 
     other than Mexico who are ineligible for asylum in Mexico and 
     wish to apply for asylum in the United States, whether or not 
     at a port of entry, and the continued presence of such 
     nationals in Mexico while they wait for the adjudication of 
     their asylum claims to conclude in the United States;
       (3) the Government of Mexico commit to provide the 
     individuals described in paragraphs (1) and (2) with 
     appropriate humanitarian protections;
       (4) the Government of Honduras, the Government of El 
     Salvador, and the Government of Guatemala each authorize and 
     accept the entrance into the respective countries of 
     nationals of other countries seeking asylum in the applicable 
     such country and process such claims in accordance with 
     applicable domestic law and international treaties and 
     conventions governing the processing of asylum claims;
       (5) the Government of the United States commit to work to 
     accelerate the adjudication of asylum claims and to conclude 
     removal proceedings in the wake of asylum adjudications as 
     expeditiously as possible;
       (6) the Government of the United States commit to continue 
     to assist the governments of countries in the Western 
     Hemisphere, such as the Government of Honduras, the 
     Government of El Salvador, and the Government of Guatemala, 
     by supporting the enhancement of asylum capacity in those 
     countries; and
       (7) the Government of the United States commit to 
     monitoring developments in hemispheric immigration trends and 
     regional asylum capabilities to determine whether additional 
     asylum cooperation agreements are warranted.
       (b) Notification in Accordance With Case-Zablocki Act.--The 
     Secretary of State shall, in accordance with section 112b of 
     title 1, United States Code, promptly inform the relevant 
     congressional committees of each agreement entered into 
     pursuant to subsection (a). Such notifications shall be 
     submitted not later than 48 hours after such agreements are 
     signed.
       (c) Alien Defined.--In this section, the term ``alien'' has 
     the meaning given such term in section 101 of the Immigration 
     and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101).

     SEC. 303. MANDATORY BRIEFINGS ON UNITED STATES EFFORTS TO 
                   ADDRESS THE BORDER CRISIS.

       (a) Briefing Required.--Not later than 90 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, and not less frequently 
     than once every 90 days thereafter until the date described 
     in subsection (b), the Secretary of State, or the designee of 
     the Secretary of State, shall provide to the appropriate 
     congressional committees an in-person briefing on efforts 
     undertaken pursuant to the negotiation authority provided by 
     section 302 of this title to monitor, deter, and prevent 
     illegal immigration to the United States, including by 
     entering into agreements, accords, and memoranda of 
     understanding with foreign countries and by using United 
     States foreign assistance to stem the root causes of 
     migration in the Western Hemisphere.
       (b) Termination of Mandatory Briefing.--The date described 
     in this subsection is the date on which the Secretary of 
     State, in consultation with the heads of other relevant 
     Federal departments and agencies, determines and certifies to 
     the appropriate congressional committees that illegal 
     immigration flows have subsided to a manageable rate.
       (c) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
     means the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
     Senate.

            TITLE IV--ENSURING UNITED FAMILIES AT THE BORDER

     SEC. 401. CLARIFICATION OF STANDARDS FOR FAMILY DETENTION.

       (a) In General.--Section 235 of the William Wilberforce 
     Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (8 
     U.S.C. 1232) is amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(j) Construction.--
       ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, judicial determination, consent decree, or settlement 
     agreement, the detention of any alien child who is not an 
     unaccompanied alien child shall be governed by sections 217, 
     235, 236, and 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
     U.S.C. 1187, 1225, 1226, and 1231). There is no presumption 
     that an alien child who is not an unaccompanied alien child 
     should not be detained.
       ``(2) Family detention.--The Secretary of Homeland Security 
     shall--
       ``(A) maintain the care and custody of an alien, during the 
     period during which the charges described in clause (i) are 
     pending, who--

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       ``(i) is charged only with a misdemeanor offense under 
     section 275(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
     U.S.C. 1325(a)); and
       ``(ii) entered the United States with the alien's child who 
     has not attained 18 years of age; and
       ``(B) detain the alien with the alien's child.''.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the amendments in this section to section 235 of the William 
     Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization 
     Act of 2008 (8 U.S.C. 1232) are intended to satisfy the 
     requirements of the Settlement Agreement in Flores v. Meese, 
     No. 85-4544 (C.D. Cal), as approved by the court on January 
     28, 1997, with respect to its interpretation in Flores v. 
     Johnson, 212 F. Supp. 3d 864 (C.D. Cal. 2015), that the 
     agreement applies to accompanied minors.
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) 
     shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act 
     and shall apply to all actions that occur before, on, or 
     after such date.
       (d) Preemption of State Licensing Requirements.--
     Notwithstanding any other provision of law, judicial 
     determination, consent decree, or settlement agreement, no 
     State may require that an immigration detention facility used 
     to detain children who have not attained 18 years of age, or 
     families consisting of one or more of such children and the 
     parents or legal guardians of such children, that is located 
     in that State, be licensed by the State or any political 
     subdivision thereof.

                    TITLE V--PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

     SEC. 501. FINDINGS.

       Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) Implementation of the provisions of the Trafficking 
     Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 that govern 
     unaccompanied alien children has incentivized multiple surges 
     of unaccompanied alien children arriving at the southwest 
     border in the years since the bill's enactment.
       (2) The provisions of the Trafficking Victims Protection 
     Reauthorization Act of 2008 that govern unaccompanied alien 
     children treat unaccompanied alien children from countries 
     that are contiguous to the United States disparately by 
     swiftly returning them to their home country absent 
     indications of trafficking or a credible fear of return, but 
     allowing for the release of unaccompanied alien children from 
     noncontiguous countries into the interior of the United 
     States, often to those individuals who paid to smuggle them 
     into the country in the first place.
       (3) The provisions of the Trafficking Victims Protection 
     Reauthorization Act of 2008 governing unaccompanied alien 
     children have enriched the cartels, who profit hundreds of 
     millions of dollars each year by smuggling unaccompanied 
     alien children to the southwest border, exploiting and 
     sexually abusing many such unaccompanied alien children on 
     the perilous journey.
       (4) Prior to 2008, the number of unaccompanied alien 
     children encountered at the southwest border never exceeded 
     1,000 in a single year.
       (5) The United States is currently in the midst of the 
     worst crisis of unaccompanied alien children in our nation's 
     history, with over 350,000 such unaccompanied alien children 
     encountered at the southwest border since Joe Biden became 
     President.
       (6) In 2022, during the Biden Administration, 152,057 
     unaccompanied alien children were encountered, the most ever 
     in a single year and an over 400 percent increase compared to 
     the last full fiscal year of the Trump Administration in 
     which 33,239 unaccompanied alien children were encountered.
       (7) The Biden Administration has lost contact with at least 
     85,000 unaccompanied alien children who entered the United 
     States since Joe Biden took office.
       (8) The Biden Administration dismantled effective 
     safeguards put in place by the Trump Administration that 
     protected unaccompanied alien children from being abused by 
     criminals or exploited for illegal and dangerous child labor.
       (9) A recent New York Times investigation found that 
     unaccompanied alien children are being exploited in the labor 
     market and ``are ending up in some of the most punishing jobs 
     in the country.''.
       (10) The Times investigation found unaccompanied alien 
     children, ``under intense pressure to earn money'' in order 
     to ``send cash back to their families while often being in 
     debt to their sponsors for smuggling fees, rent, and living 
     expenses,'' feared ``that they had become trapped in 
     circumstances they never could have imagined.''.
       (11) The Biden Administration's Department of Health and 
     Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra compared placing 
     unaccompanied alien children with sponsors, to widgets in an 
     assembly line, stating that, ``If Henry Ford had seen this in 
     his plant, he would have never become famous and rich. This 
     is not the way you do an assembly line.''.
       (12) Department of Health and Human Services employees 
     working under Secretary Xavier Becerra's leadership penned a 
     July 2021 memorandum expressing serious concern that ``labor 
     trafficking was increasing'' and that the agency had become 
     ``one that rewards individuals for making quick releases, and 
     not one that rewards individuals for preventing unsafe 
     releases.''.
       (13) Despite this, Secretary Xavier Becerra pressured then-
     Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement Cindy Huang to 
     prioritize releases of unaccompanied alien children over 
     ensuring their safety, telling her ``if she could not 
     increase the number of discharges he would find someone who 
     could'' and then-Director Huang resigned one month later.
       (14) In June 2014, the Obama-Biden Administration requested 
     legal authority to exercise discretion in returning and 
     removing unaccompanied alien children from non-contiguous 
     countries back to their home countries.
       (15) In August 2014, the House of Representatives passed 
     H.R. 5320, which included the Protection of Children Act.
       (16) This title ends the disparate policies of the 
     Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 by 
     ensuring the swift return of all unaccompanied alien children 
     to their country of origin if they are not victims of 
     trafficking and do not have a fear of return.

     SEC. 502. REPATRIATION OF UNACCOMPANIED ALIEN CHILDREN.

       (a) In General.--Section 235 of the William Wilberforce 
     Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (8 
     U.S.C. 1232) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) in paragraph (2)--
       (i) by amending the heading to read as follows: ``Rules for 
     unaccompanied alien children.--'';
       (ii) in subparagraph (A)--

       (I) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking ``who 
     is a national or habitual resident of a country that is 
     contiguous with the United States'';
       (II) in clause (i), by inserting ``and'' at the end;
       (III) in clause (ii), by striking ``; and'' and inserting a 
     period; and
       (IV) by striking clause (iii); and

       (iii) in subparagraph (B)--

       (I) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking ``(8 
     U.S.C. 1101 et seq.) may--'' and inserting ``(8 U.S.C. 1101 
     et seq.)--'';
       (II) in clause (i), by inserting before ``permit such child 
     to withdraw'' the following: ``may''; and
       (III) in clause (ii), by inserting before ``return such 
     child'' the following: ``shall''; and

       (B) in paragraph (5)(D)--
       (i) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking ``, 
     except for an unaccompanied alien child from a contiguous 
     country subject to exceptions under subsection (a)(2),'' and 
     inserting ``who does not meet the criteria listed in 
     paragraph (2)(A)''; and
       (ii) in clause (i), by inserting before the semicolon at 
     the end the following: ``, which shall include a hearing 
     before an immigration judge not later than 14 days after 
     being screened under paragraph (4)'';
       (2) in subsection (b)--
       (A) in paragraph (2)--
       (i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting before the semicolon 
     the following: ``believed not to meet the criteria listed in 
     subsection (a)(2)(A)''; and
       (ii) in subparagraph (B), by inserting before the period 
     the following: ``and does not meet the criteria listed in 
     subsection (a)(2)(A)''; and
       (B) in paragraph (3), by striking ``an unaccompanied alien 
     child in custody shall'' and all that follows, and inserting 
     the following: ``an unaccompanied alien child in custody--
       ``(A) in the case of a child who does not meet the criteria 
     listed in subsection (a)(2)(A), shall transfer the custody of 
     such child to the Secretary of Health and Human Services not 
     later than 30 days after determining that such child is an 
     unaccompanied alien child who does not meet such criteria; or
       ``(B) in the case of a child who meets the criteria listed 
     in subsection (a)(2)(A), may transfer the custody of such 
     child to the Secretary of Health and Human Services after 
     determining that such child is an unaccompanied alien child 
     who meets such criteria.''; and
       (3) in subsection (c)--
       (A) in paragraph (3), by inserting at the end the 
     following:
       ``(D) Information about individuals with whom children are 
     placed.--
       ``(i) Information to be provided to homeland security.--
     Before placing a child with an individual, the Secretary of 
     Health and Human Services shall provide to the Secretary of 
     Homeland Security, regarding the individual with whom the 
     child will be placed, information on--

       ``(I) the name of the individual;
       ``(II) the social security number of the individual;
       ``(III) the date of birth of the individual;
       ``(IV) the location of the individual's residence where the 
     child will be placed;
       ``(V) the immigration status of the individual, if known; 
     and
       ``(VI) contact information for the individual.

       ``(ii) Activities of the secretary of homeland security.--
     Not later than 30 days after receiving the information listed 
     in clause (i), the Secretary of Homeland Security, upon 
     determining that an individual with whom a child is placed is 
     unlawfully present in the United States and not in removal 
     proceedings pursuant to chapter 4 of title II of the 
     Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1221 et seq.), 
     shall initiate such removal proceedings.''; and
       (B) in paragraph (5)--
       (i) by inserting after ``to the greatest extent 
     practicable'' the following: ``(at no expense to the 
     Government)''; and
       (ii) by striking ``have counsel to represent them'' and 
     inserting ``have access to counsel to represent them''.

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       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall apply to any unaccompanied alien child (as such term is 
     defined in section 462(g) of the Homeland Security Act of 
     2002 (6 U.S.C. 279(g))) apprehended on or after the date that 
     is 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 503. SPECIAL IMMIGRANT JUVENILE STATUS FOR IMMIGRANTS 
                   UNABLE TO REUNITE WITH EITHER PARENT.

       Section 101(a)(27)(J) of the Immigration and Nationality 
     Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(27)(J)) is amended--
       (1) in clause (i), by striking ``, and whose reunification 
     with 1 or both of the immigrant's parents is not viable due 
     to abuse, neglect, abandonment, or a similar basis found 
     under State law''; and
       (2) in clause (iii)--
       (A) in subclause (I), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (B) in subclause (II), by inserting ``and'' after the 
     semicolon; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following:

       ``(III) an alien may not be granted special immigrant 
     status under this subparagraph if the alien's reunification 
     with any one parent or legal guardian is not precluded by 
     abuse, neglect, abandonment, or any similar cause under State 
     law;''.

     SEC. 504. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.

       Nothing in this title shall be construed to limit the 
     following procedures or practices relating to an 
     unaccompanied alien child (as defined in section 462(g)(2) of 
     the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 279(g)(2))):
       (1) Screening of such a child for a credible fear of return 
     to his or her country of origin.
       (2) Screening of such a child to determine whether he or 
     she was a victim of trafficking.
       (3) Department of Health and Human Services policy in 
     effect on the date of the enactment of this Act requiring a 
     home study for such a child if he or she is under 12 years of 
     age.

                   TITLE VI--VISA OVERSTAYS PENALTIES

     SEC. 601. EXPANDED PENALTIES FOR ILLEGAL ENTRY OR PRESENCE.

       Section 275 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
     U.S.C. 1325) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a) by inserting after ``for a subsequent 
     commission of any such offense'' the following: ``or if the 
     alien was previously convicted of an offense under subsection 
     (e)(2)(A)'';
       (2) in subsection (b)--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``at least $50 and not 
     more than $250'' and inserting ``not less than $500 and not 
     more than $1,000''; and
       (B) in paragraph (2), by inserting after ``in the case of 
     an alien who has been previously subject to a civil penalty 
     under this subsection'' the following: ``or subsection 
     (e)(2)(B)''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(e) Visa Overstays.--
       ``(1) In general.--An alien who was admitted as a 
     nonimmigrant has violated this paragraph if the alien, for an 
     aggregate of 10 days or more, has failed--
       ``(A) to maintain the nonimmigrant status in which the 
     alien was admitted, or to which it was changed under section 
     248, including complying with the period of stay authorized 
     by the Secretary of Homeland Security in connection with such 
     status; or
       ``(B) to comply otherwise with the conditions of such 
     nonimmigrant status.
       ``(2) Penalties.--An alien who has violated paragraph (1)--
       ``(A) shall--
       ``(i) for the first commission of such a violation, be 
     fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not 
     more than 6 months, or both; and
       ``(ii) for a subsequent commission of such a violation, or 
     if the alien was previously convicted of an offense under 
     subsection (a), be fined under such title 18, or imprisoned 
     not more than 2 years, or both; and
       ``(B) in addition to, and not in lieu of, any penalty under 
     subparagraph (A) and any other criminal or civil penalties 
     that may be imposed, shall be subject to a civil penalty of--
       ``(i) not less than $500 and not more than $1,000 for each 
     violation; or
       ``(ii) twice the amount specified in clause (i), in the 
     case of an alien who has been previously subject to a civil 
     penalty under this subparagraph or subsection (b).''.

                  TITLE VII--IMMIGRATION PAROLE REFORM

     SEC. 701. IMMIGRATION PAROLE REFORM.

       Section 212(d)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
     U.S.C. 1182(d)(5)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(5)(A) Except as provided in subparagraphs (B) and (C) 
     and section 214(f), the Secretary of Homeland Security, in 
     the discretion of the Secretary, may temporarily parole into 
     the United States any alien applying for admission to the 
     United States who is not present in the United States, under 
     such conditions as the Secretary may prescribe, on a case-by-
     case basis, and not according to eligibility criteria 
     describing an entire class of potential parole recipients, 
     for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public 
     benefit. Parole granted under this subparagraph may not be 
     regarded as an admission of the alien. When the purposes of 
     such parole have been served in the opinion of the Secretary, 
     the alien shall immediately return or be returned to the 
     custody from which the alien was paroled. After such return, 
     the case of the alien shall be dealt with in the same manner 
     as the case of any other applicant for admission to the 
     United States.
       ``(B) The Secretary of Homeland Security may grant parole 
     to any alien who--
       ``(i) is present in the United States without lawful 
     immigration status;
       ``(ii) is the beneficiary of an approved petition under 
     section 203(a);
       ``(iii) is not otherwise inadmissible or removable; and
       ``(iv) is the spouse or child of a member of the Armed 
     Forces serving on active duty.
       ``(C) The Secretary of Homeland Security may grant parole 
     to any alien--
       ``(i) who is a national of the Republic of Cuba and is 
     living in the Republic of Cuba;
       ``(ii) who is the beneficiary of an approved petition under 
     section 203(a);
       ``(iii) for whom an immigrant visa is not immediately 
     available;
       ``(iv) who meets all eligibility requirements for an 
     immigrant visa;
       ``(v) who is not otherwise inadmissible; and
       ``(vi) who is receiving a grant of parole in furtherance of 
     the commitment of the United States to the minimum level of 
     annual legal migration of Cuban nationals to the United 
     States specified in the U.S.-Cuba Joint Communique on 
     Migration, done at New York September 9, 1994, and reaffirmed 
     in the Cuba-United States: Joint Statement on Normalization 
     of Migration, Building on the Agreement of September 9, 1994, 
     done at New York May 2, 1995.
       ``(D) The Secretary of Homeland Security may grant parole 
     to an alien who is returned to a contiguous country under 
     section 235(b)(3) to allow the alien to attend the alien's 
     immigration hearing. The grant of parole shall not exceed the 
     time required for the alien to be escorted to, and attend, 
     the alien's immigration hearing scheduled on the same 
     calendar day as the grant, and to immediately thereafter be 
     escorted back to the contiguous country. A grant of parole 
     under this subparagraph shall not be considered for purposes 
     of determining whether the alien is inadmissible under this 
     Act.
       ``(E) For purposes of determining an alien's eligibility 
     for parole under subparagraph (A), an urgent humanitarian 
     reason shall be limited to circumstances in which the alien 
     establishes that--
       ``(i)(I) the alien has a medical emergency; and
       ``(II)(aa) the alien cannot obtain necessary treatment in 
     the foreign state in which the alien is residing; or
       ``(bb) the medical emergency is life-threatening and there 
     is insufficient time for the alien to be admitted to the 
     United States through the normal visa process;
       ``(ii) the alien is the parent or legal guardian of an 
     alien described in clause (i) and the alien described in 
     clause (i) is a minor;
       ``(iii) the alien is needed in the United States in order 
     to donate an organ or other tissue for transplant and there 
     is insufficient time for the alien to be admitted to the 
     United States through the normal visa process;
       ``(iv) the alien has a close family member in the United 
     States whose death is imminent and the alien could not arrive 
     in the United States in time to see such family member alive 
     if the alien were to be admitted to the United States through 
     the normal visa process;
       ``(v) the alien is seeking to attend the funeral of a close 
     family member and the alien could not arrive in the United 
     States in time to attend such funeral if the alien were to be 
     admitted to the United States through the normal visa 
     process;
       ``(vi) the alien is an adopted child with an urgent medical 
     condition who is in the legal custody of the petitioner for a 
     final adoption-related visa and whose medical treatment is 
     required before the expected award of a final adoption-
     related visa; or
       ``(vii) the alien is a lawful applicant for adjustment of 
     status under section 245 and is returning to the United 
     States after temporary travel abroad.
       ``(F) For purposes of determining an alien's eligibility 
     for parole under subparagraph (A), a significant public 
     benefit may be determined to result from the parole of an 
     alien only if--
       ``(i) the alien has assisted (or will assist, whether 
     knowingly or not) the United States Government in a law 
     enforcement matter;
       ``(ii) the alien's presence is required by the Government 
     in furtherance of such law enforcement matter; and
       ``(iii) the alien is inadmissible, does not satisfy the 
     eligibility requirements for admission as a nonimmigrant, or 
     there is insufficient time for the alien to be admitted to 
     the United States through the normal visa process.
       ``(G) For purposes of determining an alien's eligibility 
     for parole under subparagraph (A), the term `case-by-case 
     basis' means that the facts in each individual case are 
     considered and parole is not granted based on membership in a 
     defined class of aliens to be granted parole. The fact that 
     aliens are considered for or granted parole one-by-one and 
     not as a group is not sufficient to establish that the parole 
     decision is made on a `case-by-case basis'.
       ``(H) The Secretary of Homeland Security may not use the 
     parole authority under this paragraph to parole an alien into 
     the United States for any reason or purpose other than those 
     described in subparagraphs (B), (C), (D), (E), and (F).
       ``(I) An alien granted parole may not accept employment, 
     except that an alien granted parole pursuant to subparagraph 
     (B) or (C) is authorized to accept employment for the 
     duration of the parole, as evidenced

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     by an employment authorization document issued by the 
     Secretary of Homeland Security.
       ``(J) Parole granted after a departure from the United 
     States shall not be regarded as an admission of the alien. An 
     alien granted parole, whether as an initial grant of parole 
     or parole upon reentry into the United States, is not 
     eligible to adjust status to lawful permanent residence or 
     for any other immigration benefit if the immigration status 
     the alien had at the time of departure did not authorize the 
     alien to adjust status or to be eligible for such benefit.
       ``(K)(i) Except as provided in clauses (ii) and (iii), 
     parole shall be granted to an alien under this paragraph for 
     the shorter of--
       ``(I) a period of sufficient length to accomplish the 
     activity described in subparagraph (D), (E), or (F) for which 
     the alien was granted parole; or
       ``(II) 1 year.
       ``(ii) Grants of parole pursuant to subparagraph (A) may be 
     extended once, in the discretion of the Secretary, for an 
     additional period that is the shorter of--
       ``(I) the period that is necessary to accomplish the 
     activity described in subparagraph (E) or (F) for which the 
     alien was granted parole; or
       ``(II) 1 year.
       ``(iii) Aliens who have a pending application to adjust 
     status to permanent residence under section 245 may request 
     extensions of parole under this paragraph, in 1-year 
     increments, until the application for adjustment has been 
     adjudicated. Such parole shall terminate immediately upon the 
     denial of such adjustment application.
       ``(L) Not later than 90 days after the last day of each 
     fiscal year, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit 
     to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the 
     Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives 
     and make available to the public, a report--
       ``(i) identifying the total number of aliens paroled into 
     the United States under this paragraph during the previous 
     fiscal year; and
       ``(ii) containing information and data regarding all aliens 
     paroled during such fiscal year, including--
       ``(I) the duration of parole;
       ``(II) the type of parole; and
       ``(III) the current status of the aliens so paroled.''.

     SEC. 702. IMPLEMENTATION.

       (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), this 
     title and the amendments made by this title shall take effect 
     on the date that is 30 days after the date of the enactment 
     of this Act.
       (b) Exceptions.--Notwithstanding subsection (a), each of 
     the following exceptions apply:
       (1) Any application for parole or advance parole filed by 
     an alien before the date of the enactment of this Act shall 
     be adjudicated under the law that was in effect on the date 
     on which the application was properly filed and any approved 
     advance parole shall remain valid under the law that was in 
     effect on the date on which the advance parole was approved.
       (2) Section 212(d)(5)(J) of the Immigration and Nationality 
     Act, as added by section 701 of this title, shall take effect 
     on the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (3) Aliens who were paroled into the United States pursuant 
     to section 212(d)(5)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality 
     Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(5)(A)) before January 1, 2023, shall 
     continue to be subject to the terms of parole that were in 
     effect on the date on which their respective parole was 
     approved.

     SEC. 703. CAUSE OF ACTION.

       Any person, State, or local government that experiences 
     financial harm in excess of $1,000 due to a failure of the 
     Federal Government to lawfully apply the provisions of this 
     title or the amendments made by this title shall have 
     standing to bring a civil action against the Federal 
     Government in an appropriate district court of the United 
     States for appropriate relief.

     SEC. 704. SEVERABILITY.

       If any provision of this title or any amendment by this 
     title, or the application of such provision or amendment to 
     any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, 
     the remainder of this title and the application of such 
     provision or amendment to any other person or circumstance 
     shall not be affected.

               DIVISION E--FISCAL COMMISSION ACT OF 2023

     SEC. 801. SHORT TITLE.

       This division may be cited as the ``Fiscal Commission Act 
     of 2023''.

     SEC. 802. DEFINITIONS.

       In this division:
       (1) Co-chair.--The term ``co-chair'' means an individual 
     appointed to serve as a co-chair of the Fiscal Commission 
     under section 803(a)(3)(C)(i).
       (2) Fiscal commission.--The term ``Fiscal Commission'' 
     means the commission established under section 803(a).
       (3) Fiscal commission bill.--The term ``Fiscal Commission 
     bill'' means a bill consisting solely of legislative language 
     that the Fiscal Commission approves and submits under clauses 
     (i) and (v), respectively, of section 803(a)(2)(B).
       (4) Outside expert.--The term ``outside expert'' is an 
     individual who is not an elected official or an officer or 
     employee of the Federal Government or of any State.

     SEC. 803. ESTABLISHMENT OF FISCAL COMMISSION.

       (a) Establishment of Fiscal Commission.--
       (1) Establishment.--No later than 60 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, there is established in Congress a 
     Fiscal Commission.
       (2) Duties.--
       (A) Improve fiscal situation.--
       (i) In general.--The Fiscal Commission shall identify 
     policies to improve the fiscal situation in the medium term 
     and to achieve a sustainable debt-to-GDP ratio of the long 
     term, and for any recommendations related to Federal programs 
     for which a Federal trust fund exists, to improve solvency 
     for a period of at least 75 years.
       (ii) Requirements.--In carrying out clause (i), the Fiscal 
     Commission shall--
       (I) propose recommendations designed to balance the budget 
     at the earliest reasonable date, including at minimum 
     stabilizing the debt-to-GDP ratio at or below one hundred 
     percent by the end of the 10-year period beginning on the 
     date the Fiscal Commission is established; and
       (II) propose recommendations that meaningfully improve the 
     long-term fiscal outlook, including changes to address the 
     growth of direct spending and the gap between the projected 
     revenues and expenditures of the Federal Government.
       (iii) Recommendations of committees.--Not later than 60 
     days after the date described in paragraph (1), each 
     committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives may 
     transmit to the Fiscal Commission any recommendations of the 
     committee relating to changes in law to further the duties 
     described in clause (ii).
       (B) Report, recommendations, and legislative language.--
       (i) In general.--Notwithstanding paragraph (4)(D)(ii)(II), 
     not earlier than November 6, 2024, but not later than 
     November 15, 2024, the Fiscal Commission shall meet to 
     consider, and vote on--
       (I) a report that contains a detailed statement of the 
     findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the Fiscal 
     Commission described in subparagraph (A)(i) and the estimate 
     of the Congressional Budget Office required under paragraph 
     (4)(D)(ii); and
       (II) legislative language to carry out the recommendations 
     of the Fiscal Commission in the report described in subclause 
     (I), which shall include a statement of the economic and 
     budgetary effects of the recommendations.
       (ii) Approval of report and legislative language.--A report 
     and legislative language of the Fiscal Commission under 
     clause (i) shall require the approval of a majority of the 
     members of the Fiscal Commission, provided that such majority 
     shall be required to include not less than 3 members of the 
     Fiscal Commission appointed by members of the Republican 
     Party and 3 members appointed by members of the Democratic 
     party.
       (iii) Additional views.--
       (I) In general.--A member of the Fiscal Commission who 
     gives notice of an intention to file supplemental, minority, 
     or additional views at the time of the final Fiscal 
     Commission vote on the approval of the report and legislative 
     language of the Fiscal Commission under clause (i) shall be 
     entitled to 3 days to file those views in writing with the 
     staff director of the Fiscal Commission.
       (II) Inclusion in report.--Views filed under subclause (I) 
     shall be included in the report of the Fiscal Commission 
     under clause (i) and printed in the same volume, or part 
     thereof, and such inclusion shall be noted on the cover of 
     the report, except that, in the absence of timely notice, the 
     report may be printed and transmitted immediately without 
     such views.
       (iv) Report and legislative language to be made public.--
     Upon the approval or disapproval of a report and legislative 
     language under clause (i) by the Fiscal Commission, the 
     Fiscal Commission shall promptly, and not more than 24 hours 
     after the approval or disapproval or, if timely notice is 
     given under clause (iii), not more than 24 hours after 
     additional views are filed under such clause, make the 
     report, the legislative language, and a record of the vote on 
     the report and legislative language available to the public.
       (v) Submission of report and legislative language.--If a 
     report and legislative language are approved by the Fiscal 
     Commission under clause (i), not later than 3 days after the 
     date on which the report and legislative language are made 
     available to the public under clause (iv), the Fiscal 
     Commission shall submit the report and legislative language 
     to the President, the Vice President, the Speaker of the 
     House of Representatives, and the majority and minority 
     leaders of each House of Congress.
       (3) Membership.--
       (A) In general.--The Fiscal Commission shall be composed of 
     16 members appointed in accordance with subparagraph (B) and 
     with due consideration to chairs and ranking members of the 
     committees and subcommittees of subject matter jurisdiction, 
     if applicable.
       (B) Appointment.--Not later than 14 days after the date 
     described in paragraph (1)--
       (i) the majority leader of the Senate shall appoint 3 
     individuals from among the Members of the Senate, and 1 
     outside expert, who shall serve as members of the Fiscal 
     Commission;
       (ii) the minority leader of the Senate shall appoint 3 
     individuals from among the Members of the Senate, and 1 
     outside expert who shall serve as members of the Fiscal 
     Commission;
       (iii) the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall 
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     among the Members of the House of Representatives, and 1 
     outside expert, who shall serve as members of the Fiscal 
     Commission; and
       (iv) the minority leader of the House of Representatives 
     shall appoint 3 individuals from among the Members of the 
     House of Representatives, and 1 outside expert, who shall 
     serve as members of the Fiscal Commission.
       (C) Co-chairs.--
       (i) In general.--Not later than 14 days after the date 
     described in paragraph (1), with respect to the Fiscal 
     Commission--
       (I) the leadership of the Senate and House of 
     Representatives of the same political party as the President 
     shall appoint 1 individual from among the members of the 
     Fiscal Commission who shall serve as a co-chair of the Fiscal 
     Commission; and
       (II) the leadership of the Senate and House of 
     Representatives of the opposite political party as the 
     President, shall appoint 1 individual from among the members 
     of the Fiscal Commission who shall serve as a co-chair of the 
     Fiscal Commission.
       (ii) Staff director.--With respect to the Fiscal 
     Commission, the co-chairs of the Fiscal Commission, acting 
     jointly, shall hire the staff director of the Fiscal 
     Commission.
       (D) Period of appointment.--
       (i) In general.--The members of the Fiscal Commission shall 
     be appointed for the life of the Fiscal Commission.
       (ii) Vacancy.--
       (I) In general.--Any vacancy in the Fiscal Commission shall 
     not affect the powers of the Fiscal Commission, but shall be 
     filled not later than 14 days after the date on which the 
     vacancy occurs, in the same manner as the original 
     appointment was made.
       (II) Ineligible members.--If a member of the Fiscal 
     Commission who was appointed as a Member of the Senate or the 
     House Representatives ceases to be a Member of the Senate or 
     the House of Representatives, as applicable--
       (aa) the member shall no longer be a member of the Fiscal 
     Commission; and
       (bb) a vacancy in the Fiscal Commission exists.
       (4) Administration.--
       (A) In general.--With respect to the Fiscal Commission, to 
     enable the Fiscal Commission to exercise the powers, 
     functions, and duties of the Fiscal Commission, there are 
     authorized to be disbursed by the Senate the actual and 
     necessary expenses of the Fiscal Commission approved by the 
     co-chairs of the Fiscal Commission, subject to the rules and 
     regulations of the Senate.
       (B) Expenses.--With respect to the Fiscal Commission, in 
     carrying out the functions of the Fiscal Commission, the 
     Fiscal Commission is authorized to incur expenses in the same 
     manner and under the same conditions as the Joint Economic 
     Committee is authorized under section 11(d) of the Employment 
     Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1024(d)).
       (C) Quorum.--With respect to the Fiscal Commission, 9 
     members of the Fiscal Commission shall constitute a quorum 
     for purposes of voting, meeting, and holding hearings.
       (D) Voting.--
       (i) Proxy voting.--No proxy voting shall be allowed on 
     behalf of any member of the Fiscal Commission.
       (ii) Congressional budget office estimates.--
       (I) In general.--The Director of the Congressional Budget 
     Office shall, with respect to the legislative language of the 
     Fiscal Commission under paragraph (2)(B)(i)(II), provide to 
     the Fiscal Commission--
       (aa) estimates of the legislative language in accordance 
     with sections 308(a) and 201(f) of the Congressional Budget 
     Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 639(a) and 601(f)); and
       (bb) information on the budgetary effect of the legislative 
     language on the long-term fiscal outlook.
       (II) Limitation.--The Fiscal Commission may not vote on any 
     version of the report, recommendations, or legislative 
     language of the Fiscal Commission under paragraph (2)(B)(i) 
     unless the estimates and information described in subclause 
     (I) of this clause are made available for consideration by 
     all members of the Fiscal Commission not later than 48 hours 
     before that vote, as certified by the co-chairs of the Fiscal 
     Commission.
       (E) Meetings.--
       (i) Initial meeting.--Not later than 45 days after the date 
     described in paragraph (1), the Fiscal Commission shall hold 
     the first meeting of the Fiscal Commission.
       (ii) Agenda.--For each meeting of the Fiscal Commission, 
     the co-chairs of the Fiscal Commission shall provide an 
     agenda to the members of the Fiscal Commission not later than 
     48 hours before the meeting.
       (F) Hearings.--
       (i) In general.--The Fiscal Commission may, for the purpose 
     of carrying out this section, hold such hearings, sit and act 
     at such times and places, require attendance of witnesses and 
     production of books, papers, and documents, take such 
     testimony, receive such evidence, and administer such oaths 
     as the Fiscal Commission considers advisable.
       (ii) Hearing procedures and responsibilities of co-
     chairs.--
       (I) Announcement.--The co-chairs of the Fiscal Commission 
     shall make a public announcement of the date, place, time, 
     and subject matter of any hearing to be conducted under this 
     subparagraph not later than 7 days before the date of the 
     hearing, unless the co-chairs determine that there is good 
     cause to begin such hearing on an earlier date.
       (II) Written statement.--A witness appearing before the 
     Fiscal Commission shall file a written statement of the 
     proposed testimony of the witness not later than 2 days 
     before the date of the appearance of the witness, unless the 
     co-chairs of the Fiscal Commission--
       (aa) determine that there is good cause for the witness to 
     not file the written statement; and
       (bb) waive the requirement that the witness file the 
     written statement.
       (G) Technical assistance.--Upon written request of the co-
     chairs of the Fiscal Commission, the head of a Federal agency 
     shall provide technical assistance to the Fiscal Commission 
     in order for the Fiscal Commission to carry out the duties of 
     the Fiscal Commission.
       (H) Outside Expert.--Any outside expert appointed to the 
     Fiscal Commission--
       (i) shall not be considered to be a Federal employee for 
     any purpose by reason of service on the Fiscal Commission; 
     and
       (ii) shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem 
     in lieu of subsistence, at rates authorized for employees of 
     agencies under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United 
     States Code, while away from their homes or regular places of 
     business in the performance of services for the Commission.
       (b) Staff of Fiscal Commission.--
       (1) In general.--The co-chairs of the Fiscal Commission may 
     jointly appoint and fix the compensation of staff of the 
     Fiscal Commission as the co-chairs determine necessary, in 
     accordance with the guidelines, rules, and requirements 
     relating to employees of the Senate.
       (2) Ethical standards.--
       (A) Senate.--Members appointed by Members of the Senate who 
     serve on the Fiscal Commission and staff of the Fiscal 
     Commission shall adhere to the ethics rules of the Senate.
       (B) House of representatives.--Members appointed by Members 
     of the House of Representatives who serve on the Fiscal 
     Commission shall be governed by the ethics rules and 
     requirements of the House of Representatives.
       (c) Termination.--The Fiscal Commission shall terminate on 
     the date that is 30 days after the date the Fiscal Commission 
     submits the report under subsection (a)(2)(B)(v).
       SEC. 804. EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF FISCAL COMMISSION 
     BILLS.
       (a) Qualifying Legislation.--Only a Fiscal Commission bill 
     shall be entitled to expedited consideration under this 
     section.
       (b) Consideration in the House of Representatives.--
       (1) Introduction.--If the Fiscal Commission approves and 
     submits legislative language under clauses (i) and (v), 
     respectively, of section 803(a)(2)(B), the Fiscal Commission 
     bill consisting solely of that legislative language shall be 
     introduced in the House of Representatives (by request)--
       (A) by the majority leader of the House of Representatives, 
     or by a Member of the House of Representatives designated by 
     the majority leader of the House of Representatives, on the 
     third legislative day after the date the Fiscal Commission 
     approves and submits such legislative language; or
       (B) if the Fiscal Commission bill is not introduced under 
     subparagraph (A), by any Member of the House of 
     Representatives on any legislative day beginning on the 
     legislative day after the legislative day described in 
     subparagraph (A).
       (2) Referral and reporting.--Any committee of the House of 
     Representatives to which a Fiscal Commission bill is referred 
     shall report the Fiscal Commission bill to the House of 
     Representatives without amendment not later than 5 
     legislative days after the date on which the Fiscal 
     Commission bill was so referred. If any committee of the 
     House of Representatives to which a Fiscal Commission bill is 
     referred fails to report the Fiscal Commission bill within 
     that period, that committee shall be automatically discharged 
     from consideration of the Fiscal Commission bill, and the 
     Fiscal Commission bill shall be placed on the appropriate 
     calendar.
       (3) Proceeding to consideration.--After the last committee 
     authorized to consider a Fiscal Commission bill reports it to 
     the House of Representatives or has been discharged from its 
     consideration, it shall be in order to move to proceed to 
     consider the Fiscal Commission bill in the House of 
     Representatives. Such a motion shall not be in order after 
     the House of Representatives has disposed of a motion to 
     proceed with respect to the Fiscal Commission bill. The 
     previous question shall be considered as ordered on the 
     motion to its adoption without intervening motion.
       (4) Consideration.--The Fiscal Commission bill shall be 
     considered as read. All points of order against the Fiscal 
     Commission bill and against its consideration are waived. The 
     previous question shall be considered as ordered on the 
     Fiscal Commission bill to its passage without intervening 
     motion except 2 hours of debate equally divided and 
     controlled by the proponent and an opponent.
       (5) Vote on passage.--The vote on passage of the Fiscal 
     Commission bill shall occur pursuant to the constraints under 
     clause 8 of rule XX of the Rules of the House of 
     Representatives.
       (c) Expedited Procedure in the Senate.--
       (1) Introduction in the senate.--If the Fiscal Commission 
     approves and submits legislative language under clauses (i) 
     and (v), respectively, of section 803(a)(2)(B), a Fiscal 
     Commission bill consisting solely of that

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     legislative language may be introduced in the senate (by 
     request)--
       (A) by the majority leader of the Senate, or by a Member of 
     the Senate designated by the majority leader of the Senate, 
     on the next day on which the Senate is in session; or
       (B) if the Fiscal Commission bill is not introduced under 
     subparagraph (A), by any Member of the Senate on any day on 
     which the Senate is in session beginning on the day after the 
     day described in subparagraph (A).
       (2) Committee consideration.--A Fiscal Commission bill 
     introduced in the Senate under paragraph (1) shall be jointly 
     referred to the committee or committees of jurisdiction, 
     which committees shall report the Fiscal Commission bill 
     without any revision and with a favorable recommendation, an 
     unfavorable recommendation, or without recommendation, not 
     later than 5 session days after the date on which the Fiscal 
     Commission bill was so referred. If any committee to which a 
     Fiscal Commission bill is referred fails to report the Fiscal 
     Commission bill within that period, that committee shall be 
     automatically discharged from consideration of the Fiscal 
     Commission bill, and the Fiscal Commission bill shall be 
     placed on the appropriate calendar.
       (3) Proceeding.--Notwithstanding rule XXII of the Standing 
     Rules of the Senate, it is in order, not later than 2 days of 
     session after the date on which a Fiscal Commission bill is 
     reported or discharged from all committees to which the 
     Fiscal Commission bill was referred, for the majority leader 
     of the Senate or the designee of the majority leader to move 
     to proceed to the consideration of the Fiscal Commission 
     bill. It shall also be in order for any Member of the Senate 
     to move to proceed to the consideration of the Fiscal 
     Commission bill at any time after the conclusion of such 2-
     day period. A motion to proceed is in order even though a 
     previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to. All 
     points of order against the motion to proceed to the Fiscal 
     Commission bill are waived. The motion to proceed is not 
     debatable. The motion is not subject to a motion to postpone. 
     A motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed 
     to or disagreed to shall not be in order. If a motion to 
     proceed to the consideration of the Fiscal Commission bill is 
     agreed to, the Fiscal Commission bill shall remain the 
     unfinished business until disposed of. All points of order 
     against a Fiscal Commission bill and against consideration of 
     the Fiscal Commission bill are waived.
       (4) No amendments.--An amendment to a Fiscal Commission 
     bill, or a motion to postpone, or a motion to proceed to the 
     consideration of other business, or a motion to recommit the 
     Fiscal Commission bill, is not in order.
       (5) Rulings of the chair on procedure.--Appeals from the 
     decisions of the Chair relating to the application of the 
     rules of the Senate, as the case may be, to the procedure 
     relating to a Fiscal Commission bill shall be decided without 
     debate.
       (d) Amendment.--A Fiscal Commission bill shall not be 
     subject to amendment in either the Senate or the House of 
     Representatives.
       (e) Consideration by the Other House.--
       (1) In general.--If, before passing a Fiscal Commission 
     bill, a House receives from the other House a Fiscal 
     Commission bill consisting of legislative language approved 
     by the same Fiscal Commission as the Fiscal Commission bill 
     in the receiving House--
       (A) the Fiscal Commission bill of the other House shall not 
     be referred to a committee; and
       (B) the procedure in the receiving House shall be the same 
     as if no Fiscal Commission bill had been received from the 
     other House until the vote on passage, when the Fiscal 
     Commission bill received from the other House shall supplant 
     the Fiscal Commission bill of the receiving House.
       (2) Revenue measures.--This subsection shall not apply to 
     the House of Representatives if a Fiscal Commission bill 
     received from the Senate is a revenue measure.
       (f) Rules To Coordinate Action With Other House.--
       (1) Treatment of fiscal commission bill of other house.--If 
     a Fiscal Commission bill is not introduced in the Senate or 
     the Senate fails to consider a Fiscal Commission bill under 
     this section, the Fiscal Commission bill of the House of 
     Representatives consisting of legislative language approved 
     by the same Fiscal Commission as the Fiscal Commission bill 
     in the Senate shall be entitled to expedited floor procedures 
     under this section.
       (2) Treatment of companion measures in the senate.--If, 
     following passage of a Fiscal Commission bill in the Senate, 
     the Senate then receives from the House of Representatives a 
     Fiscal Commission bill approved by the same Fiscal Commission 
     and consisting of the same legislative language as the 
     Senate-passed Fiscal Commission bill, the House-passed Fiscal 
     Commission bill shall not be debatable. The vote on passage 
     of the Fiscal Commission bill in the Senate shall be 
     considered to be the vote on passage of the Fiscal Commission 
     bill received from the House of Representatives.
       (3) Vetoes.--If the President vetoes a Fiscal Commission 
     bill, consideration of a veto message in the Senate under 
     this paragraph shall be 10 hours equally divided between the 
     majority and minority leaders of the Senate or the designees 
     of the majority and minority leaders of the Senate.

     SEC. 805. FUNDING.

       Funding for the Fiscal Commission shall be derived in equal 
     portions from--
       (1) the contingent fund of the Senate from the 
     appropriations account ``Miscellaneous Items'', subject to 
     the rules and regulations of the Senate; and
       (2) the applicable accounts of the House of 
     Representatives.

     SEC. 806. RULEMAKING.

       The provisions of this division are enacted by Congress--
       (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate 
     and the House of Representatives, respectively, and, as such, 
     the provisions--
       (A) shall be considered as part of the rules of each House, 
     respectively, or of that House to which they specifically 
     apply; and
       (B) shall supersede other rules only to the extent that 
     they are inconsistent therewith; and
       (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
     either House to change such rules (so far as relating to such 
     House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same 
     extent as in the case of any other rule of such House.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The bill shall be debatable for 1 hour 
equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member 
of the Committee on Appropriations or their respective designees.
  The gentleman from Florida (Mr. Diaz-Balart) and the gentlewoman from 
Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro) each will control 30 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Florida.


                             General Leave

  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all 
Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their 
remarks and include extraneous material on the measure under 
consideration.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Florida?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to speak on the Spending Reduction and Border 
Security Act of 2024.
  As we all know, the most basic duty that Congress has and must 
complete every year is that constitutional power of Congress to fund 
the Federal Government. This bill, Mr. Speaker, will provide funding to 
keep our government open until October 31. Unless we act now, the 
government will shut down at midnight on Saturday.
  Let's be very clear, Mr. Speaker. The House has already passed four 
appropriations bills, which constitute the majority of funding for our 
government. Now, unfortunately, the Senate continues to sit on its 
hands and has failed to pass any of them, any of them thus far. 
Unfortunately, it is something that we have seen time and time again 
from our friends across this building.
  Mr. Speaker, the country is nearly $32.9 trillion in debt--that is 
trillion with a t, Mr. Speaker--and our deficit this year is $1.9 
trillion. The Biden administration has gone on a crazy, irresponsible 
spending binge with money that we do not have to spend, money that is 
borrowed mostly from Communist China. It is time. It is time. It is 
time that we slow this out-of-control, unsustainable spending to a 
level that is sustainable.
  Yesterday, Mr. Speaker, I was proud that the House of Representatives 
passed the State and Foreign Operations appropriations bill, one that I 
was pleased and honored to lead that cut wasteful spending while making 
crucial investments in our national security, all while the total cost 
of that bill passed last night is way below fiscal year 2015 spending 
levels. That bill that we passed will slow our spending by really 
taking discretionary spending back to fiscal year 2022 overall.
  Now, excluded from those reductions in this bill are any reductions 
from defense, veterans, homeland security, and disaster relief. It is a 
very important start and well overdue to fund our priorities, the 
American people's priorities, but doing so in a responsible way that 
does not bankrupt the American taxpayer.
  Mr. Speaker, in addition, this bill provides flexibility to the 
Department of Defense for new starts, but this bill does more than just 
deal with our out-of-control spending, which it must. It will also help 
the just inhumane tide at our southern border.
  Mr. Speaker, our southern border is out of control. The Biden 
administration has failed to even do the bare minimum to secure our 
border. As I have

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said before, Mr. Speaker, the irresponsible attitude of the Biden 
administration when it comes to the southern border is beyond 
negligence and incompetence. It also has fatal consequences.
  In just the last few days, we have seen a surge at the border with an 
average of over 9,000 apprehensions each and every day. This is 
unsustainable. It is unthinkable, and I would add it is immoral.
  Mr. Speaker, our border is out of control. Actually, no, let me 
correct myself right here on the floor of the House, Mr. Speaker. No, 
it is controlled now 100 percent by the narco-terrorist cartels on the 
Mexican side of the border. That is who the administration has ceded 
control of the southern border to. This crisis is only going to 
continue to get worse and worse unless we act.

                              {time}  1215

  Earlier this year, the House approved the bill that I was honored to 
lead, H.R. 2, the Border Security Act of 2023. As you know, Mr. 
Speaker, this bill would make changes to our immigration policies that 
would help reclaim control of the southern border.
  I am proud to say that the Spending Reduction and Border Security Act 
of 2024, which I am speaking about today, includes the Border Security 
Act of 2023 already passed by this House.
  This bill provides a solution. This bill that we are discussing now 
provides a solution to keep the government open. This bill keeps the 
government open and restrains the growth of government while giving us 
an opportunity to continue negotiations on the appropriations bills.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to do the responsible thing. 
Support this bill so that we can send it to the Senate and keep the 
Federal Government open. That is what we are dealing with. That is what 
the vote is about.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to do the right thing and 
vote ``yes'' on this bill, and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise to oppose this continuing resolution. If you 
cannot agree to the funding levels for 2024 in order to keep government 
open, you must pass a continuing resolution. A 30 percent slashing of 
the Federal Government only continues the majority's inability and 
unwillingness to govern responsibly.
  I would argue that you cannot call it a conservative resolution, 
either. There is nothing conservative about the indiscriminate 
destruction of public investments in America's families.
  Regardless of what it is called, this bill inflicts serious 
consequences on the American people, whether it is signed into law, 
which it never will be, or because of the costly shutdown it triggers.
  We are less than 48 hours from a government shutdown, and what do we 
have to show for it?
  The American people are tired of the doublespeak coming from the 
majority. There are House Republicans who have repeatedly assured the 
public that nobody wants a shutdown, and there are others who tell us 
they think a shutdown would be a good thing for the country. Maybe they 
are not worried about a shutdown because they know that Members of 
Congress will not miss a paycheck.
  I can speak for every Democrat in the Congress when I say we oppose 
this Republican shutdown, a shutdown that will be devastating for our 
country.
  What have the Republicans offered as their effort to avoid a 
government shutdown? What would this bill do? This bill would slash 
investments in cancer research, leave communities recovering from 
natural disasters out to dry, and undercut allies with a $1 billion cut 
to Israel and further cuts to our support of Ukraine. It defunds law 
enforcement by 30 percent and makes our communities less safe. It takes 
food out of the mouths of millions.
  This bill raises costs for American families at a time when the cost 
of living is already too high.
  It cuts title I education funding, the bedrock of American public 
education, to the effect of 150,000 teachers being pulled out of 
classrooms. Mr. Speaker, 275,000 children would lose access to Head 
Start, undermining early education and making it harder for parents to 
work.
  In an unprecedented move, the House Republican bill cuts the Low-
Income Home Energy Assistance Program, LIHEAP, funding by roughly 74 
percent. More than 5 million households will lose their home heating or 
cooling benefits or have their benefits cut by hundreds of dollars, 
threatening their ability to heat their homes in winter or cool their 
homes in summer.
  House Republicans are threatening public health by cutting the Food 
Safety and Inspection Service by 30 percent. Without adequate 
inspection staff in our meat and poultry plants, these plants will be 
required to close or reduce their hours. It hurts workers' paychecks, 
reduces the meat and poultry supply, raises the cost of food for 
American families, and risks the consumption of contaminated food.
  With the cuts in this bill, 400,000 fewer small businesses would be 
assisted by the Small Business Administration's entrepreneurial 
development programs. This would have a significant impact on small 
business owners, especially among veterans, women, and Native American 
entrepreneurs.
  This bill has no future. At best, it is dead on arrival in the Senate 
and would never be signed by the President of the United States.
  Everyone in this room knows that keeping the government operating and 
passing bills to fully fund the next fiscal year will require 
bipartisan cooperation. You need the House and the Senate, Democrats 
and Republicans, to pass appropriations bills. Yet, House Republicans 
are refusing to work with and negotiate with Democrats.
  This is a pointless charade with grave consequences for the American 
people. House Democrats are ready to work. We were ready in the spring. 
We were ready last week. We are ready this weekend. We are ready today, 
tomorrow, and every day to work in good faith with our colleagues on 
the other side of the aisle to meet the needs of the American people.
  Let's get to work, serious work.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, let's be very clear. We are going to 
know shortly who wants to shut down the government and who wants to 
keep it open because we are going to have a vote. In front of us today 
is this resolution to keep the government open. I know there is going 
to be a lot of talk, but we are going to have a vote. If you vote for 
this resolution, it keeps the government open, and if you vote against 
it, government shuts down Saturday night.
  That is not too complicated. The American people are smart. They get 
that. Out of all the talk we are going to hear, we will know on that 
vote. If you vote for this resolution, you are voting to keep the 
government open. If you vote against it, well, you are voting to shut 
it down.

  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. 
Westerman), the distinguished chairman of the Committee on Natural 
Resources.
  Mr. WESTERMAN. Mr. Speaker, we have all heard that life is about 
making choices. Serving in Congress requires making big choices on a 
big stage that are forever chronicled in our votes. Take out all the 
rhetoric and all the policy disagreements and, at the end of this 
debate, every Member of the House will have a choice to make and a vote 
to cast.
  Making choices is about setting priorities. House Republicans have 
made it clear that cutting spending, securing the border, and keeping 
the government open while we finish the yearlong spending bills are our 
priorities.
  It is no secret, based on previous actions, that my friends across 
the aisle prioritize out-of-control spending and an open border. I 
anticipate their priorities will outweigh their desire to keep the 
government open. That is their choice.
  Since President Biden took office, our debt has skyrocketed, 
inflation is strangling our citizens, and thousands of pounds of 
fentanyl and millions of illegal immigrants, including more than 150 on 
the terrorist watch list, have poured over our southern border and into 
our communities. This immigration crisis is so bad that the Biden 
administration has resorted to building migrant shelters in our 
national parks and waiving environmental laws to do it.
  This has to stop. The choices are clear. The conservative solution 
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avoid a government shutdown, secure our borders, and keep us on track 
to restore fiscal sanity. Let me be clear that a vote against this bill 
is a vote to continue down the path of out-of-control spending, to keep 
our borders open, and to shut down the government.
  Mr. Speaker, I have made my choice to vote ``yes,'' and I encourage 
others to do the same.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I will just take a second to tell the 
gentleman from Arkansas that, with this bill, you will cut 1,460 
teachers from your district and almost 46,000 households will have 
their low-income energy assistance benefits terminated.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. 
Wasserman Schultz), the distinguished ranking member of the Military 
Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Subcommittee.
  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this so-
called CR, which is a MAGA gift basket to far-right extremists.
  Let's first address the reality. The gutting cuts in this bill do not 
continue current funding like we have historically done in continuing 
resolutions. Instead, this so-called CR slashes cancer and Alzheimer's 
research, defunds the police, and undercuts allies like Israel and 
Ukraine.
  Republicans claim to care about our borders, but this invites more 
immigration problems. Instead of giving migrants a path to work and pay 
taxes, it leaves them to languish in substandard private prisons.
  This grab bag of budgetary garbage stands no chance of becoming law 
and just slingshots into a shutdown in 36 hours, a shutdown that harms 
everyone, from seniors and servicemembers to this Nation's most 
vulnerable and its very security. It snarls small-business loans and 
trade, delays home loans, and could force Federal contractors into 
layoffs.
  It is a MAGA recipe for more chaos and inflation, and my home State 
of Florida will feel it first. The longer it drags on, the deeper the 
airport lines will get as TSA agents and air traffic controllers go 
without pay and passport processing slows down.
  Worse, it actually makes our military serve without pay. Don't 
forget, in the 2019 GOP shutdown, they forced Coast Guard members into 
food banks. That does not make America stronger.
  Instead of making communities less safe and handcuffing FEMA's 
recovery responsiveness, which this CR does, why don't Republicans join 
Democrats to fight Big Pharma and keep lowering drug prices like 
insulin?
  Instead of a shutdown that closes Social Security field offices, 
which this CR does, and takes food from the mouths of children, why 
won't Republicans join Democrats to bolster education, healthcare, and 
climate investments like Americans want? Why? Because MAGA extremists 
don't want to make life better for all Americans. They want to inflict 
pain on their own leadership, on our government, and on the American 
people. Why? Because it covers up their lack of an agenda, excites 
their base, and throws gas on their bonfires of distraction and chaos.
  America deserves better than that and so does this institution.

  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Arrington), the chairman of the Committee on the Budget.
  Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, policies have consequences. Over the last 
2 years, we have seen a string of self-inflicted crises because of the 
policies of my Democratic colleagues and this President.
  Let me give you examples: $11 trillion over 2 years from my 
Democratic colleagues, $6 trillion of which went to the national debt, 
all of which lit the fuse on this inflation firestorm, this cost-of-
living crisis that is punishing working families from coast to coast. 
We have to stop the spending that is bankrupting this great country of 
ours.
  This President's dereliction of duty to uphold the laws of the land, 
his failure to provide for a common defense, to defend our sovereign 
borders, and to put the safety and security of the American people 
first has created an unmitigated and unprecedented crisis at the 
border, where we are being flooded with criminal activity and drugs 
that are killing people--300 a day, the leading cause of death in the 
United States.
  We have a plan, and my Democratic colleagues are going to have to 
respond to that. We are going to fund the government and keep it open, 
but we are going to give you measures to secure the border and 
prioritize the safety of the American people and reduce spending. We 
are going to save this country and our children's future while we are 
at it because that is the responsible thing to do not only for our 
country and the citizens of our country but for future generations of 
Americans who will inherit the whirlwind if we don't start reining in 
this wasteful Washington spending.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the Republican funding bill, and I 
ask my colleagues to do the same.

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  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I want to take a few seconds here to let 
the gentleman from Texas know that the State of Texas will lose almost 
14,000 teachers. That is going to be really tough to explain that to 
families when their children do not have a teacher in the classroom.
  In addition to that, almost 77,000 Texans will lose their low-income 
energy assistance benefits or have those benefits cut. It is going to 
be a tough time for folks, come the cooler months or the warmer months, 
to take advantage of this.
  I think people need to be mindful of the consequences of a 30 percent 
cut, or in the case of LIHEAP, a 74 percent cut, that they are 
proposing today.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Mrs. 
Ramirez).
  Mrs. RAMIREZ. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, I cannot believe that I am standing here again having to 
remind my colleagues that we are a nation of immigrants. I am going to 
come to this podium each time my Republican colleagues have amnesia 
about where their families came from or try to scapegoat the immigrant 
community.
  Introducing a continuing resolution that cuts services and deports 
unaccompanied children, ending asylum, and jailing families betrays a 
truth about my colleagues.
  They are more willing to scapegoat and sacrifice the well-being of 
immigrants, children--that they say they care so much about--babies--
that they say they care so much about--veterans, the elderly and people 
experiencing poverty than they are to do the hard work of owning up to 
their failures, their hypocrisy, their ineffective leadership.
  It is hypocritical to target immigrants when many of the people in 
this Chamber have reaped the benefits of immigrant labor and have 
become wealthy on the backs of immigrant sacrifice.
  Let me tell you what my mother tells me about her journey. It takes 
courage to cross a border, to seek a job, or to pursue an opportunity 
to raise their children in safety.
  The courage of our people stands in stark contrast to the cowardice 
of my colleagues. There is nothing people-centered about this 
Republican CR. There is nothing noble or redeeming about it. It is time 
for a clean CR that does not scapegoat the people this Nation has been 
built on, and let's stop indulging the cowardice of my colleagues.
  For this reason, Mr. Speaker, at the appropriate time I will offer a 
motion to recommit this bill back to committee. If the House rules 
permitted, I would have offered the motion with an important amendment 
to my bill. That amendment would strike the section that makes 30 
percent cuts across the board.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to include the text of my 
amendment in the Record immediately prior to the vote on the motion to 
recommit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentlewoman from Illinois?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, I would remind my colleagues in the 
House and the American people that last year, 900 immigrants died 
trying to cross the border. That is not humane. That is insane, and 
that we are not willing to look away and tolerate in the name of what? 
No. That is what is intolerable.

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  I will not be lectured, Mr. Speaker, when 900 migrants died trying to 
get to the United States, and when there are thousands of children who 
are now missing that were supposed to be taken care of by the United 
States Federal Government.
  You don't hear about that. That is not humane. This legislation puts 
an end to that insanity.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Jordan), the 
chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary.
  Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, the fiscal year ends in 36 hours. This bill funds the 
government. We have a $2 trillion deficit, $33 trillion debt. This bill 
cuts spending.
  We have a border that is wide open. This bill secures the border.
  Those are three simple commonsense things, but the most important of 
those three is the one that Mr. Diaz-Balart was just talking about, the 
border situation.
  Mr. Speaker, 2021 was the highest number on record for illegal 
migrants entering the country, the highest year on record until 2022, 
and that was the highest year on record until this year. That is how 
bad this is.
  Here is the important point: It is not just conservatives, it is not 
just Republicans talking about securing the border, the mayor of New 
York said the migrant crisis will ``destroy New York City.''
  Everyone in the country knows what needs to be done. This bill does 
it and does it in a commonsense way. Reasonable cuts in spending to 
deal with the huge deficit we have, but most importantly it addresses 
the most pressing issue we have.
  The most pressing issue in the country today is the border situation. 
Everyone in the country knows it, it seems, except Democrats in the 
United States Congress.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``yes'' vote.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I would take a second to tell the gentleman 
from Ohio that 232,000 people in Ohio will be without low-income energy 
assistance benefits.
  Further, there will be 5,500 teachers who will be pulled out of 
classrooms, and the families in both instances will suffer while the 
gentleman talks about issues that are not truly affecting what is 
happening in the everyday lives of the people that he represents.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. 
Jackson Lee).
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, let me take a moment to offer my 
deepest sympathy to the people of California, her family, and the 
people of this Nation on the passing of Senator Feinstein.
  Mr. Speaker, this is a serious moment in history. This is a serious 
moment for patriots and persons courageous enough to do the right 
thing.
  I started out this morning by saying it will be the American people 
that will suffer, but it will be my neighbors in Houston and my fellow 
Texans.
  We have a solution, and I think it should be very clearly stated. 
What my friends on the other side of the aisle are arguing is chaos and 
confusion. They are arguing no solution. They are shouting from the top 
of their lungs to be heard and to generate excitement for social media, 
but we have a very calm situation.
  The Senate has voted 77-19 to put forward a reasoned extension, 
keeping the funding as it is, making sure our military is being paid, 
not cutting off women and children from supplemental nutrition--these 
are infants we are talking about--and taking care of communities, like 
the firefighters in the West who are suffering after fighting fires and 
other natural disasters.
  They have a CR. It will come here. It has a privileged status. That 
status will allow us to vote. The government will be open, and then the 
engagement on issues that are in disagreement or agreement could be 
worked out.
  If we continue this shrill talk and don't reasonably act courageously 
as patriots to be able to stop the suffering of the American people, we 
will have 50,000 pounds of cocaine here because we won't have Customs 
and Border officers.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the 
gentlewoman from Texas.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding 
additional time.
  Mr. Speaker, we will have 110,000 children--where their parents are 
going to work--that will have no Head Start slots; 65,000 will not have 
access to childcare; 60,000 seniors will be robbed of nutrition 
programs. Then we will have 2.3 million women, infants, and children, 
as I said, without WIC. No educational dollars, fewer teachers, 4,000 
fewer safety inspections, and we will be undermining law enforcement.
  So if everyone wants to be shrill, here is a solution. Bring the 
temperature down, pass the Senate CR, open the doors, and stop these 
draconian cuts because you are hurting the American people and my 
fellow Houstonians.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak in opposition to H.R. 5525 Continuing 
Appropriations and Border Security Enhancement Act, 2024.
  The reckless funding proposal included in this bill would painfully 
impact the lives of millions of Americans by making disastrous cuts to 
programs that workers and families count on every day.
  Mr. Speaker, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are more 
focused on introducing unpopular and dangerous funding bills that cut 
virtually all non-defense discretionary funding by 8 percent than 
working on a bipartisan solution that could be enacted.
  The Republican funding bill is a short-term radical solution and 
would only keep the government open until October 31, 2023.
  This deadline guarantees Congress will need to pass another 
Continuing Resolution (CR) and means either House Republicans will 
slash critical resources again at the end of October or the dangerous 
cuts in this extreme bill will be in place until Congress is able to 
pass all 12 full-year bills.
  In exchange for keeping the government open, House Republicans are:
  Slashing investments in the National Institutes of Health (NIH). 
Medical research into treatments and cures for diseases like cancer, 
Alzheimer's, and heart disease would be cut with the reduction of 2,000 
research grants.
  Furthering their goal of eliminating public education by cutting 
funding for Title I, IDEA, and Head Start. Cuts to Title I and IDEA 
would be the equivalent of removing more than 40,000 teachers and 
service providers from classrooms serving low-income students and 
students with disabilities. And approximately 100,000 children would 
lose access to Head Start, undermining early education for children in 
low-income communities and parents' ability to go to work.
  Failing to support communities recovering from natural disasters. In 
the midst of hurricane season and with several response and recovery 
efforts to major disasters underway, this bill harms FEMA's readiness 
by failing to address the urgent need for additional Disaster Relief 
Funds to address existing shortfalls and respond to future unknown 
disasters.
  Cutting border security funding. Despite claims that this bill 
prioritizes border security, it does the opposite by cutting funding 
critical to those operations. The bill would ensure disruption and 
chaos at the border, harm our economy, empower transnational criminal 
organizations, endanger communities, and put our agents' and officers' 
lives at risk.
  Neglecting our water infrastructure by cutting funds to the Army 
Corps of Engineers. House Republicans are cutting funds to the Army 
Corps of Engineers Construction activities by 21 percent. With $444 
million slashed from the Corps of Engineers' Construction activities, 
projects critical to waterway navigation of supply chains, reducing 
flood and storm damage, or providing ecosystem restoration would 
freeze.
  Taking food out of the mouths of children, families, and seniors. 
House Republicans are threatening food safety, raising the costs of 
food, and killing jobs in rural communities by slashing the Food Safety 
and Inspection Service (FSIS) by 11 percent (or $124 million).
  Turning their backs on America's small businesses. The Small Business 
Administration (SBA), Entrepreneurial Development Programs would be cut 
by 8.1 percent. This means approximately 107,000 fewer small businesses 
would be assisted. This would have a significant impact on underserved 
communities such as Veterans, Women, and Native American entrepreneurs.
  Slashing resources for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and Opioid 
Use Disorder treatment. The Republican CR cuts funding for the 988 
Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by 18 percent. Nearly 1 million people 
facing a suicidal or mental health crisis would be unable to access 
support services through the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, and 
thousands of individuals would be denied admission to opioid use 
disorder treatment, denying them a potentially life-saving path to 
recovery.

  Mr. Speaker, their unrealistic proposals almost guarantee that our 
government will shut down tomorrow at midnight.

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  A Republican government shutdown would hurt hard working families in 
Texas:
  172,877 active duty and reserve personnel serving our nation's armed 
forces in Texas would be forced to go without the pay they earn during 
a shutdown.
  The Small Business Administration would stop processing small 
business loans, halting a program that provides $2,742,702,800 in 
funding to small businesses in Texas every year.
  176,276 people flying through Texas airports every day would face 
potential delays and safety concerns due to staffing impacts on TSA 
agents and air traffic controllers.
  786,686 people in Texas would soon lose access to Special 
Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) 
benefits.
  168,4l3 federal workers in Texas would be furloughed or forced to 
work without pay, in addition to the many employees of businesses with 
government contracts who could be laid off, furloughed, or see their 
hours cut.
  Workers at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would be sidelined, 
risking interruptions and delays to the 892 food safety, pharmaceutical 
manufacturing, and other inspections conducted in Texas last year.
  The Department of Agriculture would be forced to stop processing 
housing loans, which provide $456,125,359 in funding to help 2,742 
families in rural Texas communities buy homes every year.
  The Department of Agriculture would be forced to stop processing farm 
loans which provide $209,391,000 in funding for farmers in Texas every 
year.
  3,291,584 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) 
beneficiaries in Texas would lose access to benefits in a prolonged 
shutdown.
  5,4l3,161 people who visit national parks in Texas every year would 
be turned away or unable to fully access parks, monuments, and museums.
  State governments would be forced to pay for federal services like 
the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, potentially 
risking benefits for the 20,846 TANF beneficiaries in Texas.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge all my colleagues to oppose H.R. 5525 as its 
passage would be detrimental to lives of millions of Americans.
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, I will remind everyone what we are 
talking about today.
  This keeps the government open. It secures the border, and it, 
frankly, reduces wasteful spending. That is what we are dealing with 
here.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy).
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Florida for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this legislation, strongly in 
support of this legislation.
  This is legislation that will make sure our troops are paid. It will 
make sure that our military can continue to do its job. It will make 
sure that our border is secured, and it will simply return funding of 
the Federal bureaucracy to pre-COVID levels. That is what we are 
talking about here. That is what my colleagues on the other side of the 
aisle are so up in arms about, that we must have a bureaucracy, bloated 
with massive expenditures in a post-COVID universe, or your life, as 
you know it, is going to end.
  When the Declaration of Independence was written, when our 
unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were 
drafted, those rights did not emanate from this floor.
  That pursuit of happiness did not come from this floor or anywhere in 
this building because this building didn't exist. It didn't come from 
Congress because Congress didn't exist.
  The fact is that no matter what happens heading into this weekend, 
whatever the result, there are 50 State governments that are continuing 
to operate. There are 3,000 counties, county governments operating. 
There are 20,000 city and municipalities with governments operating; 
12,000 independent school districts, because we have a Federal system 
of government and we are supposed to take care of ourselves and our 
families and our communities. We are not supposed to bankrupt our 
country and devalue the dollar and drive up inflation such that the 
American people can no longer afford to live.
  That is what my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are doing 
with blank checks, with more borrowing, more taxing, more spending, 
destroying the future of this country. That stops now. We stand up on 
this side of the aisle for sanity and a secure border.
  Mr. Speaker, I support this legislation.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I find it hard to believe that the 
gentleman from Texas believes that wasteful spending is on teachers who 
really teach our youngsters, and 14,000 of them will be gone in the 
State of Texas.
  I find it hard to believe that it is wasteful spending to deal with 
77,000 people who will lose their LIHEAP benefits. Is that wasteful 
spending, for people to have heat or be cooled or kids being taught in 
school?
  Let's talk about wasteful spending and the tax cuts my colleagues on 
the other side of the aisle are willing to give the richest one-tenth 
of 1 percent of the people in this country and the richest 
corporations, and tax cheats, I might add, as well.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. 
Espaillat), the distinguished ranking member of the Legislative Branch 
Subcommittee.
  Mr. ESPAILLAT. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 5525, 
the so-called spending reduction and border security act.
  You want border security, Mr. Speaker, let's do comprehensive 
immigration reform. Let's do it the way Ronald Reagan did it back in 
the day: He looked at everybody, all the families, and allowed the men 
to work and contribute to our economy.
  This is a reprehensible and irascible spending bill that slashes 
critical resources from working-class families.
  House Republicans are defunding law enforcement. The so-called party 
of public safety is now defunding law enforcement. So if something is 
happening in your district or your neighborhood and you call the police 
and they are late, law enforcement should blame it on these cuts. The 
response time will be impacted dramatically.
  Social Security offices will be closing. Yes, I have seen the lines 
going around the block with seniors as early as 6 o'clock in the 
morning.
  Guess what? They will be closing.
  This bill is taking food out of children's mouths, and the mouths of 
families, impacting Title 1 schools with poverty levels--never seen 
before poverty levels, and Title 3 students, English language learners, 
and taking thousands upon thousands of teachers out of the classroom. 
Is this the way to avoid a shutdown?

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  This is a way to hurt families--working-class families, middle-class 
families--that depend on these vital programs, Mr. Speaker, to survive 
and move forward.
  Nearly 150,000 teachers and service providers will be removed from 
the classroom serving low-income students and students with 
disabilities.
  In addition to that, approximately 275,000 kids will lose access to 
Head Start--Head Start, the only surviving program from the sixties 
that gives a head start to children will be cut.
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Donalds), a friend and neighbor of my district.
  Mr. DONALDS. Mr. Speaker, $2 trillion deficit, $33 trillion in debt, 
and Washington just wants to continue to grow.
  Mr. Speaker, 20 percent inflation year over year is crippling every 
family in our country, and 8 percent mortgage rates are squeezing our 
real estate market, and Washington just wants to grow and grow.
  Our cities are overrun with migrants because of the reckless policies 
of the President of the United States. Fentanyl is killing 85,000 
Americans year over year, and congressional Democrats refuse to secure 
the border.
  Mr. Speaker, enough is enough. This bill does one very important 
thing--really two very important things.
  Number one, it returns our government back to pre-COVID spending 
levels of 2019. COVID-19 is over. Why can't our government live within 
its means? Our people have to live within their means; our government 
should, as well.
  I remember when there was a baby formula shortage and mothers 
couldn't get food for their infants. Joe Biden was nowhere. 
Congressional Democrats were nowhere. All they said was spend more 
money while the problems persisted.
  They are building shelters in parks in New York City to house 
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no issue at the border even though everybody sees the problems that 
exist.
  This is the time to secure the border of our Nation and to cut 
wasteless spending in our government. If we are going to have a society 
and a government worthy of the people that we serve, Washington has to 
do something that Washington never seems to want to do: restrain 
itself.
  We have a fundamental obligation to secure this Nation and to secure 
the people that we all serve.
  Coming out here talking about what is going to happen with WIC is not 
going to solve the problem. Talking about the fiscal health of this 
Nation is going to solve the problem.
  Our national debt has been downgraded twice now. The Democrats want 
to spend more money. Support this measure.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, to both of the gentlemen from Florida, 
8,500 teachers, gone. Think about the kids who are going to school and 
there is no teacher for them. Think about folks who need to heat or 
cool their homes. We are looking at 36,000 households that will be 
without those benefits.
  Do they really care about those folks? Probably not.
  As a Democrat, I took the lead on the infant formula crisis--I don't 
know where my colleague was during that crisis--and called to attention 
a company that knowingly sold tainted product and wound up killing 
three or four people. I don't know where he was during that. I know 
where I was, and I know where the administration was.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. 
Thompson), the distinguished ranking member of the Homeland Security 
Committee.
  Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman 
from Connecticut for yielding.
  I rise today in strong opposition to H.R. 5525, a bill more designed 
to appease the extreme MAGA wing of the Republican Party than to stave 
off a government shutdown.
  With just hours remaining before our Nation is thrust into an 
unnecessary shutdown, the House is being forced to waste time on a 
measure that would impose draconian cuts to vital Federal programs and 
compel the enactment of H.R. 2, the child deportation act.
  When we considered H.R. 2 in May, I called it a cruel, extreme, 
unworkable immigration and border security measure.
  Time has not been kind to the bill.
  It still would wreck our economy, cripple our ports of entry, destroy 
the asylum system, criminalize visa overstays, force unaccompanied 
children into dangerous situations, jail families and children 
indefinitely, and on top of all that, worsen conditions at the border.
  The child deportation act would upend CBP's ability to process 
migrants at ports of entry and bar funding to humanitarian 
organizations that provide shelter, transportation, and legal 
assistance to children and families fleeing horrific conditions.
  Moreover, it does nothing to stem the deadly flow of fentanyl into 
the United States.
  The Senate will not take up H.R. 5525, and it will never go to the 
President's desk. The House must come together today and stop coddling 
extreme MAGA members looking to get former President Trump's failed 
illegal and immoral policies enacted into law. I urge my colleagues to 
join me in defeating H.R. 5525 and call upon the Speaker to have the 
House consider the Senate's bipartisan continuing resolution.
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Arizona (Mr. Ciscomani), a Member whose life story symbolizes what the 
American Dream is all about, and a member of the Appropriations 
Committee.
  Mr. CISCOMANI. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend for yielding. We are 
living in a border crisis, the worst one that we have ever seen. The 
numbers show what used to be bi-annual numbers are now monthly and even 
weekly numbers. There is no denying where we are.
  The Tucson sector, which is where I live, has seen the worst of this, 
Mr. Speaker. We are at home seeing street releases now, just last week 
allowing 11,000 apprehensions and during this month about 40,000. These 
are, again, annual numbers in the past, and now they are what we 
consider almost on a weekly basis.

  Now, I live in a county that is on the border, and we are seeing it 
firsthand. I know exactly how life is there. As Mario Diaz-Balart, my 
good friend from Florida mentioned, I am an immigrant myself. I know 
the journey. I became a U.S. citizen in 2006 and became a U.S. 
Congressman in 2022, 16 years later.
  I know this country is the country of opportunity. I get why people 
want to come here. However, this administration has allowed the cartels 
to run amuck and handle the border and abuse people as they are trying 
to do so.
  Our local communities are suffering because of that. They are the 
ones carrying the burden. We have cries from help from both sides of 
the aisle. I hear from mayors that are Democrats, mayors that are 
Republicans. It doesn't matter the party, they are all being impacted 
the same way.
  This administration has not prioritized this crisis.
  I will tell you, living on the border I understand what I call the 
three buckets. We can talk about immigration, we can talk about trade 
and commerce, and we can talk about security, and all three are 
suffering right now because of the lack of attention on this issue.
  It is also a humanitarian problem when this administration has lost 
track of 85,000 minors. This is nothing short of a humanitarian crisis, 
as well. Not even that will make the President wake up to this.
  This is the worst time to be on the verge of a shutdown in less than 
48 hours. We cannot shut down. We have to do what we can to protect our 
border and keep our government funded.
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time is 
remaining.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Florida has 10 minutes 
remaining. The gentlewoman from Connecticut has 10\1/2\ minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I remind the gentleman from Arizona that 
there will be 63,000 households in Arizona that will be without the 
low-income energy assistance benefits. These are not just numbers. 
These are people, and we are making their lives more difficult at a 
time when there is serious inflation and when there is, in fact, a high 
cost of living.
  My colleagues on the other side of the aisle are only adding and 
increasing to that high cost of living.
  I might also remind the gentleman from Arizona that we are looking at 
about 2,800 teachers.
  Now, again, these are not just numbers. Children go to school. If 
there is no teacher to teach them, what is the result? What happens to 
parents when they find out that their child's teacher is gone? If there 
was a teaching shortage before, this will make it even worse. That is 
the result of the cuts that my colleagues on the other side of the 
aisle want to make. It is there. It is in black and white. You can't 
make up the numbers.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Michigan (Ms. 
Tlaib).
  Ms. TLAIB. Mr. Speaker, there are human beings behind every single 
number that we talk about. Folks want to debate policy and different 
kinds of extremist agenda items when they are in charge. They can have 
committee hearings and deal with it separately, but right now we are 
literally hours away from direct impact on children and families and 
even the Federal workers, many of whom are living paycheck-to-paycheck.
  A government shutdown will harm the American people. That should be 
at the center of the urgency that needs to be met in this Chamber as we 
move forward.
  I know in Michigan I am going to see 207,000 women and children lose 
the WIC program that provides nutrition assistance, and literally 
120,000 of them are children.
  I still remember, Mr. Speaker, in 2019 there was a shutdown for 35 
days. Colleagues were wondering why the Federal workers were in food 
bank lines. Why can't they get loans, one of them said. What are you 
talking about? These are Federal workers who are living--like a 
majority of Americans--paycheck-to-paycheck, and you are expecting them 
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food on the table, all the utilities which continue to go up, but let's 
go ahead and cut LIHEAP by 75 percent.
  Republicans' priorities in this Chamber are clear: starve, evict 
families living in poverty, and cut people from essential services. 
They don't care. You don't care because they are going to continue to 
get paid. You all are going to continue to get paid while your 
residents are being impacted. If I hear you lying one more time to the 
American people and saying that Federal employees are going to get 
paid, they are not. They are going to be forced to work with no pay, 
especially those on military bases, especially those that, again, are 
on the front lines that cannot just sit at home while you all fight 
amongst each other.

  It is time for Republicans to stop playing these games with the 
American people's lives. They know this is an extremist bill; many of 
them know. It is not going to go anywhere.
  The American people, Mr. Speaker, deserve better.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their remarks 
to the Chair.
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Pfluger).
  Mr. PFLUGER. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of House 
Republicans' plan to cut spending to keep government open and to shut 
down the border. The President has failed Americans. He has failed 
Texans. He has failed us by not securing our border.
  Mr. Speaker, 7\1/2\ million illegal immigrants, 150 people just this 
year who matched the terror watch list, 13,000 criminals, 100,000-plus 
fentanyl poisoning deaths is unacceptable. Enough is enough.
  This plan, which would also include H.R. 2, the most secure border 
act in decades, puts the President on notice.
  Now is the time.
  This is the most important border security vote in 20 years. This 
vote right here not only cuts spending, but it shuts down the border 
and the disaster, the chaos, and the unacceptable level of death that 
our President has caused.
  This bill deserves our attention. I urge my colleagues to cut the 
spending, to keep the government open, and to shut down the border.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I remind the gentleman from Texas that the 
eyes of the people of Texas are upon you when you are thinking about 
really 77,000 seniors and kids without any benefits from the low-income 
energy assistance program and also 14,000 teachers will be gone from 
Texas schools.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from New York 
(Ms. Clarke).

                              {time}  1300

  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman 
from New York (Ms. Clarke).
  Ms. CLARKE of New York. Mr. Speaker, I rise on this day in opposition 
to the continuing resolution, which includes the Republican extreme and 
restrictive immigration and border security legislation, H.R. 2.
  This cruel legislation would force draconian restrictions and 
punishments on migrants and asylum seekers and set America's 
immigration priorities back decades. This bill would damage the asylum 
system, a process millions upon millions of vulnerable and desperate 
people and families have long depended on for their safety and future.
  Instead of putting forth legislation that can pass the Senate and 
avert a government shutdown, extreme Republicans would rather hold the 
economy and border security hostage, throwing millions of lives into a 
tailspin.
  Let's be clear. Any bill that would allow vulnerable migrant children 
to be inhumanely detained by Border Patrol for up to a month, to be 
ripped from their families and locked up from the world, is 
unacceptable. It is fundamentally un-American.
  To treat innocent people who are looking for a better life in our 
Nation with such contempt, such vitriol, such callousness, while also 
making American families vulnerable in putting food on their tables, 
that is not leadership. It is called cowardice.
  Every American, no matter how long their families have called this 
country their own, should be outraged at the GOP embracing the Trump 
administration's failed and immoral border policies to keep the 
government open.
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
South Dakota (Mr. Johnson), an author of this bill.
  Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota. Mr. Speaker, so often around here, we 
vote on half measures, narrow bills that, at best, address one issue in 
only a modest way. This is not that bill. This is an opportunity in one 
vote to shut the border, to keep the government open, and to reduce 
spending.
  The five conservative leaders who, with me, crafted this proposal 
knew that bold action was needed.
  Crisis one: We are $33 trillion in debt. That is pushing us toward 
insolvency. That number has grown by 50 percent in just the last 4 
years. This bill puts us back on the right track and cuts billions of 
spending, even just in the next month.
  Two, a shutdown accomplishes nothing. It does not save a nickel. In 
fact, it costs the American taxpayers billions. This stopgap funding 
measure makes sure our government stays open.
  Three, 1.8 million illegal crossings at our southern border is 
unacceptable. This bill puts into place the policies that we know work 
to secure our border.
  Mr. Speaker, I will admit to not understanding fully those who oppose 
this bill. I do not understand why anyone would choose open borders 
over an open government.
  Mr. Speaker, we are here to solve problems. Chaos is not a 
legislative strategy. In a few moments, I will vote to keep the 
government open, to cut spending, and to secure our border. I urge my 
colleagues to do the same.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  It is almost laughable to think about chaos. I think the majority has 
demonstrated overwhelmingly in the last several days, the last several 
months, an unwillingness to govern, an inability to govern, and chaos, 
general chaos, here.
  It is interesting. The gentleman is from South Dakota, where, last I 
understood, a little bit like the Northeast, in New England, it gets 
cold. It gets cold in the wintertime in South Dakota. The gentleman is 
happy to see 24,000 individuals not get energy assistance, low-income 
heating assistance. We may be taking up a collection of hats and coats 
and gloves, et cetera, because they are not going to get their LIHEAP 
benefits in a cold climate.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Grothman).
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, we are here today because we think the 
government is going to shut down on Sunday. That is because there are 
supposed to be 12 separate bills that comprise our budget that were 
supposed to be passed by now. We have passed the four most important. 
Unfortunately, the Senate has not passed any, so we have to move 
forward from here.
  We don't know what the shutdown means. I hope the press is on the 
ball and pays careful attention if anything is shut down that President 
Trump did not shut down a few years ago. There is a lot of flexibility 
for Presidents to show if they are compassionate or not. If there is 
anything shut down that President Trump didn't shut down, it is 
something we have to talk about.
  Let's look at the problems we have in this country right now, two big 
problems. The first is what is going on at the border. We used to have 
about 10,000 cross the border. We are now over 200,000. We are 
addressing it. The American public is tired of paying more taxes and 
spending money and seeing an open border every night.
  That is one of the reasons why we have to pass the bill. The other 
reason is we have to make a little bit of a dent in the out-of-control 
spending.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on H.R. 5525.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I want to let the gentleman from Wisconsin 
know that 195,000 households are beneficiaries of the LIHEAP program. 
They will be jettisoned from that program. If you think it is cold in 
this Chamber, head to Wisconsin and you will know how cold it is in the 
wintertime. Think twice about whether or not you will vote to cut 
195,000 people's benefits.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr. Austin Scott).

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  Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I thought I would go ahead 
and respond because I know as soon as I sit down, the gentlewoman from 
Connecticut is going to talk about the schoolteachers in Georgia, and 
my sister is one of them. She gets her check from the county, in case 
you didn't know it. It kind of bothers me that you seem to think that 
they get a check from the Federal Government. They actually get paid by 
the county, as do our sheriff's deputies.

  How did we get here? I have heard the left talk about the chaos 
caucus that we have, candidly, as Republicans and what gives them the 
power. It only takes five of them to create a disruption. How do five 
get the power? The five in our party get the power because the 212 of 
you on the Democratic side are going to vote with them to shut down the 
government.
  Now, a continuing resolution is a 30-day piece of legislation that I 
will admit is not perfect, but it is better than a shutdown or the 
chaos that comes with a shutdown.
  The idea that we as Republicans and the American citizens have to eat 
a $2 trillion deficit or else you are going to shut down the government 
is absolutely ridiculous.
  We are not at war. We are not in a recession. We are in no health 
emergency. Show a little responsibility.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Lawler). Members are reminded to direct 
their remarks to the Chair.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman 
from New York (Ms. Malliotakis).
  Ms. MALLIOTAKIS. Mr. Speaker, I hope the American people are 
listening right now. The Democrats would rather shut down the 
government than end an unsustainable and unsafe border crisis that has 
flooded our streets with fentanyl, an unsustainable flow of illegal 
immigrants destroying New York City, as Mayor Adams says, and only 
enriching the drug cartels.
  This bill is common sense, and everyone should support it. It does 
three things that the American people want. It avoids a shutdown; it 
cuts excessive, wasteful spending that has led us to a $33 trillion 
debt; and it secures our border. It stops an unsustainable and unsafe 
crisis.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to put taxpaying, hardworking 
American citizens and their safety first.
  I heard my colleague from New York City say that it was cruel that we 
want to secure our borders. Do you know what is cruel? In New York City 
yesterday, at one of the migrant shelters, a 7-year-old girl was 
sexually abused. Do you know what is cruel? Somebody was stabbed at the 
Roosevelt shelter in Manhattan. The fact is, there are dozens of crimes 
being committed, and our mayor and you guys are doing nothing about it.
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to how much time is 
remaining.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Florida has 4\1/4\ 
minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from Connecticut has 3\1/2\ minutes 
remaining.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I find it unbelievable that the gentlewoman 
from New York would support a bill that cuts $1 billion from our ally 
in the Middle East--that is, from Israel.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Arkansas (Mr. Hill).
  Mr. HILL. Mr. Speaker, this is an important day. This Congress needs 
to come together to go back and get our spending under control and also 
get our border under control.
  Both are of concern to the American people. We hear about it in our 
offices every day. The spending is unsustainable, but 200,000 people a 
month coming across the border and living in this country illegally is 
also unsustainable.
  This bill is a product of hard work for weeks to give us time to 
complete our appropriations work, to negotiate with the Senate while at 
the same time reducing spending, which has been an avalanche of out-of-
control spending for the last 2 years, and to secure our border.
  Mr. Speaker, I stand in support of it, and I urge my colleagues to 
support it.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman 
from New York (Mr. Molinaro).
  Mr. MOLINARO. Mr. Speaker, after pouring trillions of dollars into 
the American economy, after ignoring the crisis at our southern border, 
after closing schools and forcing kids to learn from home, after 
denying life-affirming services to young people with disabilities, we 
have been lectured about how great these last 2 years have been for the 
American people.
  We have, in this very moment, the ability to avert a government 
shutdown and, at the same time, finally take some responsibility for 
reckless, wasteful Federal spending.
  There is no excuse to pick the pockets of hardworking American 
families who are already overburdened because of inflation, the high 
cost of gas, the high cost of groceries, the inability to access or 
find a job, and running up their credit cards.
  We have the ability now to avert a government shutdown, control 
Federal spending, and secure the border, an open border that is taking 
too many American children's lives because of fentanyl and destroying 
communities all across this country.
  The mayor of New York is saying the President has ignored his call 
and that inaction at the border is destroying the city of New York. We 
have, in this very moment, the ability to avert a shutdown, respect 
American taxpayers, and secure the American borders.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  What we are looking at here is a piece of legislation that makes a 30 
percent cut in programs that have a serious effect on the lives of the 
people in this country.
  Let me just lay out some of them because these have not been talked 
about so far.
  The National Institutes of Health will be cut. There would be a 
reduction of 7,000 research grants.

                              {time}  1315

  I think we have people in this Chamber on both sides of the aisle who 
have had a loved one with a cancer diagnosis or Alzheimer's or heart 
disease, but there is a willingness to cut the National Institutes of 
Health and thereby cut 7,000 research grants.
  Let's take a look at our allies. We speak about Israel and Ukraine. 
Israel will receive a $1 billion cut in the funds that the U.S. 
provides. We talk about Israel as being our closest ally in the Middle 
East.
  People should understand what is in this bill. We defund--not we--my 
Republican colleagues defund law enforcement, reduce drug enforcement 
administration agents, Federal law enforcement officers, eliminate 
hundreds of State and local law enforcement.
  They talk about crime, and they talk about law and order, but there 
is a willingness to cut the funds in order for us to make our 
communities safe.
  Social Security offices, the field offices, would be forced to close 
down, reducing access to in-person services.
  People applying for disability benefits will wait additional months 
for the processing of claims. That is what is in store with this bill 
if you support it.
  Wildfire suppression efforts will be hindered, 57 percent cuts, and 
we know what devastation wildfires have had all over our country. Look 
at what happened in Maui.
  Unbelievable that they would talk about a bill, extol a bill that has 
such devastating repercussions on the people of this country.
  They slashed the resources for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. 
Opioid use disorder. They are worried and talk about an opioid crisis, 
but let's cut off the avenue where people can get treatment and help 
and potentially save their lives.
  Education. It is an abomination, what they will do to education 
because they are on a march to eliminate public education in the United 
States of America; that opportunity that all of our families have said: 
Go to school, get an education so that you can succeed.
  Rural America? Let's care about rural America, not cutting the loans 
and grants for farmers and rural communities.
  They will make it harder for farmers to access loans and grants, 
making home farm ownership more difficult. They cut rural housing, 
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broadband to keep people in touch, and they eliminate health services 
for rural and underserved families.
  Mr. Speaker, 2 million vulnerable individuals and families will lose 
access to healthcare services. They take food out of the mouths of 
children, families, and seniors.
  Mr. Speaker, there needs to be a ``no'' vote on this irresponsible 
continuing resolution. I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, oh, so many words. Allow me, Mr. 
Speaker, to cut to the chase. We have a choice right now.
  Vote ``yes'' to keep the Federal Government open, to control 
inflation-causing overspending, and to secure the southern border. That 
is a ``yes'' vote, or vote ``no'' to shut down the Federal Government, 
to keep the narco cartels in control of the southern border.
  This is pretty simple. Government likes to complicate things. As 
politicians, we like to try to obfuscate reality.
  This is very simple. We have a choice. I ask our colleagues to do the 
responsible thing; secure the border, stop out-of-control, inflation-
causing spending, and, yes, keep the government open by voting ``yes.''
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, in just over 24 hours, if we cannot come 
to an honest, responsible, and bipartisan solution on a continuing 
resolution to fund federal agencies. we will be forced into a 
government shutdown.
  Our constituents are relying on us to work together to fulfill our 
constitutional responsibility to fund their government. Failing to do 
so will harm this nation's children and families, our service members 
and veterans, our seniors and our next generation, and all those who 
depend on the services and investments our government provides.
  Let me be clear: This is a completely avoidable, politically-
manufactured crisis, but it will have real consequences for the 
American people.
  The looming shutdown is the result of a failure to govern by the 
House Republican Majority, who have allowed this body's legislative 
work to be undermined by an extreme MAGA faction that controls GOP 
leadership. Democrats in the House, President Biden, and a bipartisan 
Senate have been working for a solution to prevent a shutdown. This 
included compromising to meet Republican demands to cap spending levels 
for the next two years under the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which 
passed both the House and the Senate with bipartisan support and was 
signed into law by President Biden less than four months ago. But that 
wasn't enough for these GOP extremists.
  Instead of doing the serious work of moving bipartisan bills at those 
agreed upon levels, this Republican Majority has chosen chaos. They 
have chosen to waste months pursuing devastating cuts to the services 
the American people rely on, slashing investments in keeping people and 
our planet healthy--all while loading up their appropriations bills 
with toxic culture war provisions that are discriminating and harmful 
to our families and our communities.
  And the Continuing Resolution they have brought to the floor today is 
nothing more than a continuation of their denial of the serious work 
that needs to be done. It does nothing to avoid a shutdown.
  Instead, Republicans are holding the American people hostage with a 
demand for a 30 precent cut across the board to federal agencies.
  This would result in a 74 percent cut to our federal investments in 
the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), literally 
leaving families in the cold that is already settling in back home in 
Minnesota.
  They are proposing to cut nutrition support for Women, Infants, and 
Children by 30 percent, taking away a lifeline for hungry families and 
pregnant women.
  They want to see investments in the health of our communities gutted:
  Their bill would mean the loss of thousands of research grants to 
cure Alzheimer's disease, cancers, and heart disease;
  Thousands of my constituents would lose access to care at their 
Community Health Centers, as would millions more rural and underserved 
families nationwide;
  Millions more who are struggling with opioid addiction or mental 
health crises would be denied life-saving support services.
  There is no end to the harm and hurt that this extreme Republican 
Continuing Resolution would cause to our families, our economy, and our 
communities if passed into law. But Speaker McCarthy knows that there 
is no chance that this bill will become law because Democrats in the 
House, a bipartisan majority of Senators, and President Biden would 
never support this betrayal of our responsibilities to our fellow 
Americans.
  Until the House Republican Majority stops catering to the bullies in 
their caucus, we cannot move forward on funding the federal government.
  So I invite my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to stop the 
chaos.
  Join us in doing the serious work of funding our government and 
meeting the needs of our constituents. With just five reasonable 
Republican votes, we can force Speaker McCarthy to take up a vote on a 
bipartisan solution.
  America deserves better leadership than what the Chaos Caucus has to 
offer.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.
  Pursuant to House Resolution 741, the previous question is ordered on 
the bill.
  The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.


                           Motion to Recommit

  Mrs. RAMIREZ. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Ms. Ramirez of Illinois moves to recommit the bill H.R. 
     5525 to the Committee on Appropriations.

  The material previously referred to by Mrs. Ramirez is as follows:

       Ms. Ramirez moves to recommit the bill H.R. 5525 to the 
     Committee on Appropriations with the following amendment:
       Strike subsection (b) of section 101 of division A.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX, the 
previous question is ordered on the motion to recommit.
  The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.
  Mrs. RAMIREZ. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair 
will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on 
the question of passage.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 210, 
nays 216, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 510]

                               YEAS--210

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey

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     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                               NAYS--216

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Bush
     Carter (TX)
     Clyde
     LaMalfa
     Luna
     Peltola

                              {time}  1339

  Messrs. DUNCAN, BURCHETT, TURNER, DesJARLAIS, GREEN of Tennessee, 
COLE, BUCSHON, and Mrs. RODGERS of Washington changed their vote from 
``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Messrs. GALLEGO and CLYBURN changed their vote from ``nay'' to 
``yea.''
  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 198, 
nays 232, not voting 3, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 511]

                               YEAS--198

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Bilirakis
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luttrell
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Murphy
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NAYS--232

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Biggs
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NC)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Boebert
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Buck
     Budzinski
     Burchett
     Burlison
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Cloud
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crane
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gaetz
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gosar
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Greene (GA)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Hunt
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Mace
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Miller (IL)
     Mills
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nehls
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Ogles
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rosendale
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Self
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Carter (TX)
     Luna
     Peltola

                              {time}  1346

  So the bill was not passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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