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  1. Adds SEC. 4_. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST USING CERTAIN FUNDS TO PROCESS APPLICATIONS FOR IMMIGRATION BENEFITS at the end of subtitle A of title IV

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    In S.Con.Res. 11 · Placed on Calendar Senate

    In the Senate, for purposes of determining budgetary impacts to evaluate points of order under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, this resolution, any previous budget resolution, and any subsequent budget resolution, provisions contained in any bill, resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that increases or extends the increase of, any guarantee fees of the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation shall not be scored with respect to the level of budget authority, outlays, or revenues contained in such legislation.

    Inserted: SEC. 4_. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST USING CERTAIN FUNDS TO PROCESS APPLICATIONS FOR IMMIGRATION BENEFITS.

    Inserted: (a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report (except measures within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives) that would permit the Secretary of Homeland Security or any other Federal official to use funds to process and adjudicate immigration benefit applications for any other purpose other than to process and adjudicate that same type of immigration benefit application.

    Inserted: (b) Immigration Benefit Application.--In this section, the term "immigration benefit application" means any application or petition to confer, certify, change, adjust, or extend any status granted under the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.).

    Inserted: (c) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under subsection (a).

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    At the end of subtitle A of title IV, add the following:

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SA 807. Mr. CASSIDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 11, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle A of title IV, add the following:

SEC. 4_. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST USING CERTAIN FUNDS TO PROCESS APPLICATIONS FOR IMMIGRATION BENEFITS.

(a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report (except measures within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives) that would permit the Secretary of Homeland Security or any other Federal official to use funds to process and adjudicate immigration benefit applications for any other purpose other than to process and adjudicate that same type of immigration benefit application.

(b) Immigration Benefit Application.--In this section, the term “immigration benefit application” means any application or petition to confer, certify, change, adjust, or extend any status granted under the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.).

(c) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under subsection (a).

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