A bill to block implementation of the Executive order that restricts individuals from certain countries from entering the United States.
- Last Action
- 1/30/2017
Actions
- 2017-01-30Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
- 2017-01-30Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2017-01-30 (00)
This bill prohibits any federal agency funds, resources, or fees from being used to implement or enforce Executive Order 13769, entitled "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States." Among the order's major provisions are restrictions on the entry of immigrants and nonimmigrants from seven countries (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen) and additional limitations on refugee admissions to the United States.
Cosponsors (14)
- Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Christopher Coons (D-DE)
- Brian Schatz (D-HI)
- Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
- Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
- Cory Booker (D-NJ)
- Patty Murray (D-WA)
- Thomas Carper (D-DE)
- Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
- Edward Markey (D-MA)
- Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
Subjects
- Africa
- Border security and unlawful immigration
- Department of Homeland Security
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Immigration status and procedures
- Iran
- Iraq
- Libya
- Middle East
- Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
- Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
- Religion
- Somalia
- Sudan
- Syria
- Travel and tourism
- Visas and passports
- Yemen
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