I 
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 Intel-
ligence (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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Universal Security of 
American Values Act of 2017’’ or as the ‘‘USA Values 
Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows: 
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(1) The Constitution is the document that em-
bodies the fundamental laws and principles by which 
the United States is governed. 
(2) In a Nation of laws, not of men, no person, 
including the President of the United States, has the 
power to violate the Constitution of United States. 
(3) In a Nation whose symbol is the Statute of 
Liberty, which welcomes the ‘‘tired, poor and 
huddled masses yearning to breathe free,’’ the Exec-
utive order issued Friday, January 26, 2017, enti-
tled, ‘‘Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist 
Entry into the United States’’, is an affront to na-
tional values and is therefore, null and void, shall 
have no force and effect, and may not be imple-
mented, administered, enforced, or carried out. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION. 
No Executive order may be enforced that would be 
in direct violation of an existing Executive order, public 
law, or fully executed regulatory agency process as it re-
lates to— 
(1) Fourth Amendment due process; 
(2) Fourteenth Amendment protections; 
(3) the Immigration and Nationality Act; 
(4) any laws that are intended to protect the 
civil liberties, civil rights, or human rights of persons 
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lawfully admitted into the United States or natural 
born or naturalized citizens of the United States; or 
(5) impact on individuals based upon race, reli-
gion, ethnicity, place of birth, place of residence, 
gender, sexual orientation and identity, age, or 
statuses that pose no undue health threat to the 
general population. 
SEC. 4. NO FUNDS AVAILABLE. 
No amounts (including fees) made available to the 
Secretary of Homeland Security, or to any other official 
of a Federal agency, by any Act for any fiscal year, 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 enti-
tled ‘‘Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry 
into the United States’’ (January 27, 2017). 
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