I 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6071 
Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2017, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 
Mr. FLORES introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budg-
et, 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 
Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2017, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
That the following sums are hereby appropriated, out of 
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
and out of applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, 
and funds, for the several departments, agencies, corpora-
tions, and other organizational units of Government for 
fiscal year 2017, and for other purposes, namely: 
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TITLE I—CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR 
FISCAL YEAR 2017 
SEC. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary, 
at a rate for operations as provided in the applicable ap-
propriations Acts for fiscal year 2016 and under the au-
thority and conditions provided in such Acts, for con-
tinuing projects or activities (including the costs of direct 
loans and loan guarantees) that are not otherwise specifi-
cally provided for in this title, that were conducted in fis-
cal year 2016, and for which appropriations, funds, or 
other authority were made available in the following ap-
propriations Acts: 
(1) The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food 
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Ap-
propriations Act, 2016 (division A of Public Law 
114–113). 
(2) The Commerce, Justice, Science, and Re-
lated Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016 (division B 
of Public Law 114–113). 
(3) The Department of Defense Appropriations 
Act, 2016 (division C of Public Law 114–113). 
(4) The Energy and Water Development and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016 (division 
D of Public Law 114–113). 
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(5) The Financial Services and General Govern-
ment Appropriations Act, 2016 (division E of Public 
Law 114–113). 
(6) The Department of Homeland Security Ap-
propriations Act, 2016 (division F of Public Law 
114–113). 
(7) The Department of the Interior, Environ-
ment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2016 (division G of Public Law 114–113). 
(8) The Departments of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, and Related Agen-
cies Appropriations Act, 2016 (division H of Public 
Law 114–113). 
(9) The Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 
2016 (division I of Public Law 114–113). 
(10) The Department of State, Foreign Oper-
ations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 
2016 (division K of Public Law 114–113), except 
title IX. 
(11) The Transportation, Housing and Urban 
Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2016 (division L of Public Law 114–113). 
(b)(1) The rate for operations provided by subsection 
(a) in the revised security category (as defined in section 
250(c)(4)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
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Deficit Control Act of 1985) is hereby adjusted by the per-
centage necessary to achieve a rate for operations in such 
category equal to the excess of $548,091,000,000 over the 
total amount made available in such category pursuant to 
section 201. 
(2) The rate for operations provided by subsection (a) 
in the revised nonsecurity category (as defined in section 
250(c)(4)(E) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985) is hereby adjusted by the per-
centage necessary to achieve a rate for operations in such 
category equal to the excess of $518,491,000,000 over the 
total amount made available in such category pursuant to 
section 201. 
SEC. 102. (a) No appropriation or funds made avail-
able or authority granted pursuant to section 101 for the 
Department of Defense shall be used for: (1) the new pro-
duction of items not funded for production in fiscal year 
2016 or prior years; (2) the increase in production rates 
above those sustained with fiscal year 2016 funds; or (3) 
the initiation, resumption, or continuation of any project, 
activity, operation, or organization (defined as any project, 
subproject, activity, budget activity, program element, and 
subprogram within a program element, and for any invest-
ment items defined as a P–1 line item in a budget activity 
within an appropriation account and an R–1 line item that 
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includes a program element and subprogram element with-
in an appropriation account) for which appropriations, 
funds, or other authority were not available during fiscal 
year 2016. 
(b) No appropriation or funds made available or au-
thority granted pursuant to section 101 for the Depart-
ment of Defense shall be used to initiate multi-year pro-
curements utilizing advance procurement funding for eco-
nomic order quantity procurement unless specifically ap-
propriated later. 
SEC. 103. Appropriations made by section 101 shall 
be available to the extent and in the manner that would 
be provided by the pertinent appropriations Act. 
SEC. 104. Except as otherwise provided in section 
102, no appropriation or funds made available or author-
ity granted pursuant to section 101 shall be used to ini-
tiate or resume any project or activity for which appro-
priations, funds, or other authority were not available dur-
ing fiscal year 2016. 
SEC. 105. Appropriations made and authority grant-
ed pursuant to this title shall cover all obligations or ex-
penditures incurred for any project or activity during the 
period for which funds or authority for such project or 
activity are available under this title. 
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SEC. 106. Unless otherwise provided for in this title 
or in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 
2017, appropriations and funds made available and au-
thority granted pursuant to this title shall be available 
until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) the enact-
ment into law of an appropriation for any project or activ-
ity provided for in this title; (2) the enactment into law 
of the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2017 
without any provision for such project or activity; or (3) 
December 9, 2016. 
SEC. 107. Expenditures made pursuant to this title 
shall be charged to the applicable appropriation, fund, or 
authorization whenever a bill in which such applicable ap-
propriation, fund, or authorization is contained is enacted 
into law. 
SEC. 108. Appropriations made and funds made 
available by or authority granted pursuant to this title 
may be used without regard to the time limitations for 
submission and approval of apportionments set forth in 
section 1513 of title 31, United States Code, but nothing 
in this title may be construed to waive any other provision 
of law governing the apportionment of funds. 
SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this title, except section 106, for those programs that 
would otherwise have high initial rates of operation or 
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complete distribution of appropriations at the beginning 
of fiscal year 2017 because of distributions of funding to 
States, foreign countries, grantees, or others, such high 
initial rates of operation or complete distribution shall not 
be made, and no grants shall be awarded for such pro-
grams funded by this title that would impinge on final 
funding prerogatives. 
SEC. 110. This title shall be implemented so that only 
the most limited funding action of that permitted in the 
title shall be taken in order to provide for continuation 
of projects and activities. 
TITLE II—MILITARY CONSTRUC-
TION, 
VETERANS 
AFFAIRS, 
AND RELATED AGENCIES AP-
PROPRIATIONS ACT, 2017 AND 
ZIKA RESPONSE AND PRE-
PAREDNESS ACT 
SEC. 201. ENACTMENT BY REFERENCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The provisions of the Military 
Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Ap-
propriations Act, 2017 and Zika Response and Prepared-
ness Act, as printed in the Conference Report accom-
panying H.R. 2577 (H. Rept. 114–640), are hereby en-
acted into law. 
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(b) PUBLICATION.—In publishing the Act in slip 
form and in the United States Statutes at Large pursuant 
to section 112, of title 1, United States Code, the Archivist 
of the United States shall include after the date of ap-
proval at the end appendixes setting forth the texts of the 
bill referred to in subsection (a) of this section. 
TITLE III—ENSURING VETTING 
OF 
REFUGEES 
TO 
KEEP 
AMERICANS SAFE 
SEC. 301. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘American Security 
Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015’’ or as the ‘‘Amer-
ican SAFE Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 302. REVIEW OF REFUGEES TO IDENTIFY SECURITY 
THREATS TO THE UNITED STATES. 
(a) BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION.—In addition to 
the screening conducted by the Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
shall take all actions necessary to ensure that each covered 
alien receives a thorough background investigation prior 
to admission as a refugee. A covered alien may not be ad-
mitted as a refugee until the Director of the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation certifies to the Secretary of Home-
land Security and the Director of National Intelligence 
that each covered alien has received a background inves-
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tigation that is sufficient to determine whether the covered 
alien is a threat to the security of the United States. 
(b) 
CERTIFICATION
BY
UNANIMOUS
CONCUR-
RENCE.—A covered alien may only be admitted to the 
United States after the Secretary of Homeland Security, 
with the unanimous concurrence of the Director of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence, certifies to the appropriate Congres-
sional Committees that the covered alien is not a threat 
to the security of the United States. 
(c) INSPECTOR
GENERAL
REVIEW
OF
CERTIFI-
CATIONS.—The Inspector General of the Department of 
Homeland Security shall conduct a risk-based review of 
all certifications made under subsection (b) each year and 
shall provide an annual report detailing the findings to 
the appropriate Congressional Committees. 
(d) MONTHLY REPORT.—The Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall submit to the appropriate Congressional 
Committees a monthly report on the total number of appli-
cations for admission with regard to which a certification 
under subsection (b) was made and the number of covered 
aliens with regard to whom such a certification was not 
made for the month preceding the date of the report. The 
report shall include, for each covered alien with regard to 
whom a certification was not made, the concurrence or 
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nonconcurrence of each person whose concurrence was re-
quired by subsection (b). 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 
(1) COVERED
ALIEN.—The term ‘‘covered 
alien’’ means any alien applying for admission to the 
United States as a refugee who— 
(A) is a national or resident of Iraq or 
Syria; 
(B) has no nationality and whose last ha-
bitual residence was in Iraq or Syria; or 
(C) has been present in Iraq or Syria at 
any time on or after March 1, 2011. 
(2) 
APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COM-
MITTEE.—The term ‘‘appropriate Congressional 
Committees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Armed Services of 
the Senate; 
(B) the Select Committee on Intelligence 
of the Senate; 
(C) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
Senate; 
(D) the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; 
(E) the Committee on Foreign Relations of 
the Senate; 
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(F) the Committee on Appropriations of 
the Senate; 
(G) the Committee on Armed Services of 
the House of Representatives; 
(H) the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence of the House of Representatives; 
(I) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
House of Representatives; 
(J) the Committee on Homeland Security 
of the House of Representatives; 
(K) the Committee on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives; and 
(L) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 
the House of Representatives. 
TITLE IV—STOPPING THE 
INTERNET GIVEAWAY 
SEC. 401. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Internet 
Freedom Act’’. 
SEC. 402. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Department of Commerce and the Na-
tional Telecommunications and Information Admin-
istration (in this section referred to as the ‘‘NTIA’’) 
should be responsible for maintaining the continuity 
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and stability of services related to certain inter-
dependent Internet technical management functions, 
known collectively as the Internet Assigned Numbers 
Authority (in this section referred to as the 
‘‘IANA’’), which includes— 
(A) the coordination of the assignment of 
technical Internet protocol parameters; 
(B) the administration of certain respon-
sibilities associated with the Internet domain 
name system root zone management; 
(C) the allocation of Internet numbering 
resources; and 
(D) other services related to the manage-
ment of the Advanced Research Project Agency 
and INT top-level domains. 
(2) The interdependent technical functions de-
scribed in paragraph (1) were performed on behalf 
of the Federal Government under a contract between 
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and 
the University of Southern California as part of a 
research project known as the Tera-node Network 
Technology project. As the Tera-node Network 
Technology project neared completion and the con-
tract neared expiration in 1999, the Federal Govern-
ment recognized the need for the continued perform-
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ance of the IANA functions as vital to the stability 
and correct functioning of the Internet. 
(3) The NTIA may use its contract authority to 
maintain the continuity and stability of services re-
lated to the IANA functions. 
(4) If the NTIA uses its contract authority, the 
contractor, in the performance of its duties, must 
have or develop a close constructive working rela-
tionship with all interested and affected parties to 
ensure quality and satisfactory performance of the 
IANA functions. The interested and affected parties 
include— 
(A) the multistakeholder, private sector- 
led, bottom-up policy development model for the 
domain name system that the Internet Corpora-
tion for Assigned Names and Numbers rep-
resents; 
(B) the Internet Engineering Task Force 
and the Internet Architecture Board; 
(C) Regional Internet Registries; 
(D) top-level domain operators and man-
agers, such as country codes and generic; 
(E) governments; and 
(F) the Internet user community. 
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(5) The IANA functions contract of the Depart-
ment of Commerce explicitly declares that ‘‘[a]ll 
deliverables provided under this contract become the 
property of the U.S. Government.’’. One of the 
deliverables is the automated root zone. 
(6) Former President Bill Clinton’s Internet 
czar Ira Magaziner stated that ‘‘[t]he United States 
paid for the Internet, the Net was created under its 
auspices, and most importantly everything [research-
ers] did was pursuant to government contracts.’’. 
(7) Under section 3 of article IV of the Con-
stitution of the United States, Congress has the ex-
clusive power to ‘‘dispose of and make all needful 
Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or 
other Property belonging to the United States’’. 
(8) The .gov and .mil top-level domains are the 
property of the United States Government, and as 
property, the United States Government should have 
the exclusive control and use of those domains in 
perpetuity. 
SEC. 403. MAINTAINING THE IANA FUNCTIONS CONTRACT. 
The Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Commu-
nications and Information may not allow the responsibility 
of the National Telecommunications and Information Ad-
ministration with respect to the Internet domain name 
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system functions, including responsibility with respect to 
the authoritative root zone file and the performance of the 
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority functions, to termi-
nate, lapse, expire, be canceled, or otherwise cease to be 
in effect unless a Federal statute enacted after the date 
of enactment of this title expressly grants the Assistant 
Secretary such authority. 
SEC. 404. EXCLUSIVE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT OWN-
ERSHIP AND CONTROL OF .GOV AND .MIL DO-
MAINS. 
Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment 
of this title, the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 
Communications and Information shall provide to Con-
gress a written certification that the United States Gov-
ernment has— 
(1) secured sole ownership of the .gov and .mil 
top-level domains; and 
(2) entered into a contract with the Internet 
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers that 
provides that the United States Government has ex-
clusive control and use of those domains in per-
petuity. 
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