IMMIGRATION REFORM AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT

Amendments

Enact (H.R. 3231), H1533 [23AP], H1643, H1650, H1652, H1653, H1654, H1655, H1656, H1661 [25AP]

Articles and editorials

Officials—Boy Swallows 87 Heroin Condoms, H1653 [25AP]

Bills and resolutions

Enact (H.R. 3231): consideration (see H. Res. 396), H1618 [24AP]

Letters

Accountability of illegal immigrants involved in car accidents: G. Michael Burns, H1637 [25AP]

Agency for Immigration Affairs employees' exemption from civil service hiring and promotion procedures and elimination from certain protections in disciplinary actions: Beth Moten, American Federation of Government Employees, H1657 [25AP]

———T.J. Bonner, American Federation of Government Employees, H1657 [25AP]

Provisions: Bruce A. Morrison and Robert C. Hill, H1628 [25AP]

Remarks in House

Agency for Immigration Affairs: authorize appropriations for certain immigration applications, H1638, H1639 [25AP]

———authorize personnel flexibility actions including managerial rotation, voluntary separation incentive payments, and a disciplinary action demonstration project, H1651 [25AP]

———Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services establishment of pilot initiatives to eliminate the backlog in benefit application processing, H1655 [25AP]

———Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services fee structures and functions, H1653, H1654 [25AP]

———establish moratorium and improve procedures for the issuance of nonimmigrant student visas, H1639 [25AP]

———make all employees exempt from civil service hiring and promotion procedures and eliminate certain protections in disciplinary actions, H1656-H1661 [25AP]

———require study on independent legal counsel for unaccompanied alien children, H1652, H1653 [25AP]

———require the Office of Immigration Statistics to maintain region-by-region statistics on denials of applications and petitions, H1654 [25AP]

———simplify information technology procurement procedures, H1661-H1664 [25AP]

Enact (H.R. 3231), H1622, H1624, H1632-H1666 [25AP], H3165 [5JN], H3724 [20JN], E679 [2MY]

———consideration (H. Res. 396), H1625-H1632 [25AP]

Reports filed

Consideration of H.R. 3231, Provisions: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 396) (H. Rept. 107-419), H1618 [24AP]

Provisions: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 3231) (H. Rept. 107-413), H1489 [22AP]

Texts of

H. Res. 396, consideration of H.R. 3231, provisions, H1625 [25AP]

H.R. 3231, provisions, H1643-H1650 [25AP]