[United States Senate Manual, 116th Congress]
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[Cleaves Manual of Conferences and Conference Reports]
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                           TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY

            
                       Chapter 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY

       336  Sec. 1254a. Temporary protected status

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            (h) Limitation on consideration in Senate of legislation 
                adjusting status
                (1) In general
                            Except as provided in paragraph (2), it 
                        shall not be in order in the Senate to consider 
                        any bill, resolution, or amendment that--

                                (A) provides for adjustment to lawful 
                            temporary or permanent resident alien status 
                            for any alien receiving temporary protected 
                            status under this section, or

                                (B) has the effect of amending this 
                            subsection or limiting the application of 
                            this subsection.

                (2) Supermajority required
                            Paragraph (1) may be waived or suspended in 
                        the Senate only by the affirmative vote of 
                        three-fifths of the Members duly chosen and 
                        sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of 
                        the Members of the Senate duly chosen and sworn 
                        shall be required in the Senate to sustain an 
                        appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of 
                        order raised under paragraph (1).
                (3) Rules
                            Paragraphs (1) and (2) are enacted--

                                (A) as an exercise of the rulemaking 
                            power of the Senate and as such they are 
                            deemed a part of the rules of the Senate, 
                            but applicable only with respect to the 
                            matters described in paragraph (1) and 
                            supersede other rules of the Senate only to 
                            the extent that such paragraphs are 
                            inconsistent therewith; and

                                (B) with full recognition of the 
                            constitutional right of the Senate to change 
                            such rules at any time, in the same manner 
                            as in the case of any other rule of the 
                            Senate. (Pub. L. 101-649, Title III, 
                            Sec. 302(a), Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 5035.)

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