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115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 735 

To prohibit the enforcement of certain Executive orders. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 30, 2017 

Ms. JACKSON LEE (for herself and Mr. RASKIN) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition 

to the Committees on Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined 

by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 

within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To prohibit the enforcement of certain Executive orders. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Universal Security of 

5 American Values Act of 2017’’ or as the ‘‘USA Values 

6 Act of 2017’’. 

7 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

8 The Congress finds as follows: 


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1 (1) The Constitution is the document that em2 bodies the fundamental laws and principles by which 

3 the United States is governed. 

4 (2) In a Nation of laws, not of men, no person, 

5 including the President of the United States, has the 

6 power to violate the Constitution of United States. 

7 (3) In a Nation whose symbol is the Statute of 

8 Liberty, which welcomes the ‘‘tired, poor and 

9 huddled masses yearning to breathe free,’’ the Exec10 utive order issued Friday, January 26, 2017, enti11 tled, ‘‘Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist 

12 Entry into the United States’’, is an affront to na13 tional values and is therefore, null and void, shall 

14 have no force and effect, and may not be imple15 mented, administered, enforced, or carried out. 

16 SEC. 3. PROHIBITION. 

17 No Executive order may be enforced that would be 

18 in direct violation of an existing Executive order, public 

19 law, or fully executed regulatory agency process as it re20 lates to— 

21 (1) Fourth Amendment due process; 

22 (2) Fourteenth Amendment protections; 

23 (3) the Immigration and Nationality Act; 

24 (4) any laws that are intended to protect the 

25 civil liberties, civil rights, or human rights of persons 


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1 lawfully admitted into the United States or natural 

2 born or naturalized citizens of the United States; or 

3 (5) impact on individuals based upon race, reli4 gion, ethnicity, place of birth, place of residence, 

5 gender, sexual orientation and identity, age, or 

6 statuses that pose no undue health threat to the 

7 general population. 

8 SEC. 4. NO FUNDS AVAILABLE. 

9 No amounts (including fees) made available to the 

10 Secretary of Homeland Security, or to any other official 

11 of a Federal agency, by any Act for any fiscal year, may 

12 be used to implement, administer, enforce, or carry out 

13 (including through the issuance of any regulations) any 

14 of the policy changes set forth in the Executive order enti15 tled ‘‘Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry 

16 into the United States’’ (January 27, 2017). 

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