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[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 722 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 722

   To prohibit the use of Federal funds to implement, administer, or 
   enforce the Executive order entitled ``Protecting the Nation from 
 Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States'' signed by President 
                  Donald J. Trump on January 27, 2017.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 30, 2017

Ms. Meng (for herself, Ms. Adams, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Brady of 
 Pennsylvania, Mrs. Bustos, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, 
  Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Espaillat, Ms. Frankel of Florida, Mr. 
   Gallego, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Hanabusa, Mr. Himes, Mr. Jeffries, Ms. 
  Kuster of New Hampshire, Ms. Lee, Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New 
 Mexico, Mr. Meeks, Mr. Moulton, Ms. Norton, Mr. O'Rourke, Mr. Payne, 
 Ms. Pingree, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Polis, Mr. Raskin, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. 
 Serrano, Mr. Soto, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. Tonko, Mrs. Torres, Ms. Velazquez, 
Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Welch, and Mr. Johnson of Georgia) introduced 
    the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
   Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, 
Homeland Security, 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

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                                 A BILL

 
   To prohibit the use of Federal funds to implement, administer, or 
   enforce the Executive order entitled ``Protecting the Nation from 
 Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States'' signed by President 
                  Donald J. Trump on January 27, 2017.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Funds for Unconstitutional 
Executive Orders Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) The first 10 words of the Bill of Rights state: 
        ``Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of 
        religion''.
            (2) In Larson v. Valente, the Supreme Court stated: ``The 
        clearest command of the Establishment Clause is that one 
        religious denomination cannot be officially preferred over 
        another.''.
            (3) On January 27, 2017, President Donald J. Trump signed 
        into force an Executive order imposing a selective ban on 
        immigration from majority-Muslim nations.
            (4) On January 27, 2017, President Trump signed into force 
        an Executive order that permits the Secretaries of State and 
        Homeland Security to admit individuals to the United States as 
        refugees if they are a religious minority in their home nation, 
        because that is in the ``national interest''.
            (5) On January 27, 2017, the Christian Broadcasting Network 
        published an interview between David Brody and President Trump 
        entitled Brody File Exclusive: President Trump Says Persecuted 
        Christians Will Be Given Priority As Refugees in which 
        President Trump says persecuted Christians will be given 
        priority for admission to the United States over other 
        religions.
            (6) The Executive order entitled ``Protecting the Nation 
        from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States'' authored 
        and signed by President Trump violates the Establishment Clause 
        of the United States Constitution.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION.

    No funds, resources, or fees made available by the United States 
Congress to any Federal agency may be used to implement, administer, 
enforce, or carry out (including through the issuance of any 
regulations) any of the policy changes set forth in the Executive order 
titled ``Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the 
United States'' signed by President Donald J. Trump on January 27, 
2017.
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