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H.R. 8146 - Police Our Border Act
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COMMITTEE ACTION:
REPORTED BY A RECORD VOTE of 9-4 on Tuesday, May 14, 2024.
FLOOR ACTION ON H. RES. 1227:
Agreed to by a record vote of 212-200, after agreeing to the previous question by a record vote of 212-201, on Wednesday, May 15, 2024.
MANAGERS: Langworthy/McGovern
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Closed rule for H.R. 8369. |
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Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. |
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Provides that the bill shall be considered as read. |
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Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill. |
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Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs or their respective designees. |
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Provides one motion to recommit. |
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Closed rule for H.R. 7530. |
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Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. |
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Provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Oversight and Accountability now printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. |
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Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended. |
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Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability or their respective designees. |
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Provides one motion to recommit. |
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Structured rule for H.R. 7343. |
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Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. |
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Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary or their respective designees. |
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Provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. |
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Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended. |
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Makes in order only those amendments printed in part A of the Rules Committee report accompanying the resolution. Each amendment made in order may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question. |
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Waives all points of order against the amendments printed in part A of the Rules Committee report. |
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Provides one motion to recommit. |
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Structured rule for H.R. 8146. |
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Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. |
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Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary or their respective designees. |
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Provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. |
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Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended. |
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Makes in order only those amendments printed in part B of the Rules Committee report accompanying the resolution. Each amendment made in order may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question. |
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Waives all points of order against the amendments printed in part B of the Rules Committee report. |
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Provides one motion to recommit. |
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Closed rule for H.R. 7581. |
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Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. |
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Provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. |
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Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended. |
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Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary or their respective designees. |
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Provides one motion to recommit. |
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Closed rule for H.R. 354. |
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Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. |
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Provides that in lieu of the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill that an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 118-34 shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. |
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Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended. |
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Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary or their respective designees. |
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Provides one motion to recommit. |
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Closed rule for H. Res. 1213. |
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Provides that upon adoption of the resolution it shall be in order without intervention of any point of order to consider H. Res. 1213. |
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Provides that the resolution shall be considered as read. |
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Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary or their respective designees. |
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Closed rule for H. Res. 1210. |
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Provides that upon adoption of the resolution it shall be in order without intervention of any point of order to consider H. Res. 1210. |
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Provides that the resolution shall be considered as read. |
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Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary or their respective designees. |
Amendments (click headers to sort)
| # | Version # | Sponsor(s) | Party | Summary | Status |
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| 1 | Version 1 | Crenshaw (TX) | Republican | Strikes "every state is a border state" and replaces it with "has spread the crisis beyond the border." | Submitted |
| 2 | Version 1 | Crenshaw (TX) | Republican | Recognizes Texas specifically, and other actual border states generally. | Submitted |
| 3 | Version 2 | Crenshaw (TX) | Republican | Revised Adds policies that would constitute "strong border security legislation." | Made in Order |
| 4 | Version 1 | Crenshaw (TX) | Republican | Requires the report to include who is spending what rather than just providing an aggregate estimated expenditure of SLTT law enforcement. | Made in Order |
| 5 | Version 1 | Crenshaw (TX) | Republican | Strikes the qualification that the report include law enforcement exposures to fentanyl only when "resulting from encounters with illegal aliens." | Submitted |
| 6 | Version 1 | Molinaro (NY) | Republican | Adds a provision to the required report to also include the impact that the Biden border crisis has had on law enforcement recruitment. | Made in Order |
| 7 | Version 2 | Alford (MO) | Republican | Revised Requires 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, and publish on the website of the Department of Homeland Security, information on any individuals who were granted parole under the Immigration and Nationality Act. | Revised |
| 8 | Version 1 | Allred (TX) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct a study on the accessibility of mental health care providers and services for CBP and USCIS personnel. | Submitted |
| 9 | Version 1 | Gottheimer (NJ), Rutherford (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Adds the bipartisan Invest to Protect Act, which makes critical, targeted investments in small and midsize police departments with fewer than 200 sworn officers for the recruitment, retention, mental health support, and training they need to protect themselves and their communities. | Submitted |
| 10 | Version 1 | Baird (IN) | Republican | Requires the federal government to transfer, without reimbursement, materials purchased for the construction of roadways or barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border and located in the states of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, or California to the governments of those states. | Submitted |
| 11 | Version 2 | Correa (CA) | Democrat | Revised Inserts a new finding that states that 89% of fentanyl interdicted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection is seized at legal ports of entry. The finding also states that according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, 88% of recently convicted fentanyl drug traffickers are U.S. citizens. | Revised |
| 12 | Version 1 | Vasquez (NM) | Democrat | Adds a reporting requirement with respect to detainees in CBP, ICE, or ORR custody. Reporting includes information on assault, sexual assault, deaths, and other conditions of detention facilities. | Submitted |
| 13 | Version 1 | Gonzales, Tony (TX) | Republican | Makes the distribution of fentanyl resulting in death a first degree murder. Furthermore, an individual who is found guilty of first degree murder by distributing fentanyl is subject to death or life in prison. | Submitted |
| 14 | Version 1 | Vasquez (NM) | Democrat | Adds the text of the Stop Coyotes Act which includes additional criminal penalties for human trafficking violations related to minors. | Submitted |
| 15 | Version 1 | Vasquez (NM) | Democrat | Provides anti-smuggling resources for the border, including $300,000,000 to hire CBP personnel, $200,000,000 for non-intrusive inspection technology to detect fentanyl, and $70,000,000 for port of entry infrastructure improvements. | Submitted |
| 16 | Version 1 | Vasquez (NM) | Democrat | Authorizes a program to educate young people in border communities about dangers of cartel recruitment. The program is funded via asset seizures from cartels. | Submitted |
| 17 | Version 1 | Vasquez (NM) | Democrat | Adds the text of the Strengthening our Workforce Act which provides lawful permanent residency for workers in critical industries. | Submitted |
| 18 | Version 1 | Vasquez (NM) | Democrat | Adds additional findings on the rejection of bipartisan immigration reform efforts by Republican leaders in Congress and a Sense of Congress that such inaction has significantly contributed to our nation's broken immigration system. | Submitted |
| 19 | Version 1 | Nunn (IA) | Republican | Requires the attorney general's report to include costs States had to expend on local law enforcement efforts to investigate, intercept, and process, which includes the collection, analysis, storage, and eventual destruction, fentanyl trafficked from the United States border. | Made in Order |
| 20 | Version 1 | Nunn (IA) | Republican | Requires the attorney general's report to include data on how many law enforcement officers have been reassigned and local resources reallocated to investigate, intercept, and process as evidence fentanyl trafficked from the United States border. | Made in Order |
| 21 | Version 1 | Sorensen (IL) | Democrat | Requires the GAO to conduct a study on the impacts that CBP staffing shortages has had on employee mental health, morale, and attrition rates; and provide recommendations for improvement. | Submitted |
| 22 | Version 1 | Sorensen (IL) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to publish a report on the effects the influx of migrants has had on CBP employees, including required sections on organizational trust, satisfaction with leadership, opinion on their schedule, and attrition rate. | Submitted |
| 23 | Version 1 | Sorensen (IL) | Democrat | Requires the GAO to investigate the root factors that have led to the large influx of migrants. | Submitted |
| 24 | Version 2 | Houlahan (PA) | Democrat | Revised Strikes Sec (2) lines 17 – 19 and strike the word “Biden” throughout the text. | Made in Order |
| 25 | Version 1 | Gimenez (FL), LaLota (NY) | Republican | Requires nationality of an illegal alien to be reported on, once they have exposed a law enforcement officer to fentanyl during an encounter at the border and in the United States. | Made in Order |
| 26 | Version 1 | Ogles (TN) | Republican | Adds to the findings section that it is in the best interest of law enforcement officers and the communities they serve for President Biden to use longstanding authorities, including under section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, to secure the southern border. | Made in Order |
| 27 | Version 1 | Armstrong (ND) | Republican | Requiring the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to ensure that the operating hours of all United States ports of entry located on the border between the United States and Canada are restored to the operating hours in effect immediately before the declaration the COVID–19 pandemic. | Submitted |
Committee Votes
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 227
Motion by Mr. Langworthy to report the rule. Adopted: 9–4
Majority Member
Vote
Mr. Reschenthaler
Yea
Mrs. Fischbach
Yea
Mr. Massie
Yea
Mr. Norman
Yea
Mr. Roy
Yea
Mrs. Houchin
Yea
Mr. Langworthy
Yea
Mr. Austin Scott
Yea
Mr. Burgess, Chairman
Yea
Minority Member
Vote
Mr. McGovern
Nay
Ms. Scanlon
Nay
Mr. Neguse
Nay
Ms. Leger Fernández
Nay