No Funds for Unconstitutional Executive Orders Act

Bill: 115-hr-722
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2017-01-30
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Africa

Border security and unlawful immigration

Executive agency funding and structure

Immigration status and procedures

Iran

Iraq

Libya

Middle East

Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Refugees, asylum, displaced persons

Religion

Somalia

Sudan

Syria

Travel and tourism

Visas and passports

Yemen
Latest action: action_date: 2017-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-01-30
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>No Funds for Unconstitutional Executive Orders Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits any federal agency funds, resources, or fees from being used to carry out any of the policy changes set forth in the executive order entitled &quot;Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,&quot; signed by President Donald J. Trump on January 27, 2017. Among the order's major provisions are restrictions on the entry of immigrants and nonimmigrants from seven countries (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen) and additional limitations on refugee admissions to the United States.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 722 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 30, 2017 Ms. Meng (for herself, Ms. Adams , Ms. Barragán , 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. Velázquez , 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 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No Funds for Unconstitutional Executive Orders Act . 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. 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.