- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Amendments
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: March 24, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
SA 4775. Ms. COLLINS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill H.R. 7147, making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
Beginning on page 106, strike lines 3 through 13, and
insert the following:
“Sec. 554. Amounts made available to `U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement—Operations and Support' in title II
of this Act shall be reduced by $5,453,706,000. Paragraph (2)
under such heading shall not apply to amounts made available
under such heading.
“Sec. 555. (a) The explanatory statement regarding this
Act, printed in the House section of the Congressional Record
on or about January 22, 2026, and submitted by the chair of
the Committee on Appropriations of the House shall have the
same effect with respect to the allocation of funds and
implementation of this Act as if it were a joint explanatory
statement of a committee of conference, except that the
matter printed under the heading `Enforcement and Removal
Operations' and amounts specified in the `Final Bill' column
for `Enforcement and Removal Operations' printed on page
H1702 and for `Subtotal, Operations and Support' printed on
page H1703 in the `Department of Homeland Security
Appropriations Act, 2026' table shall have no force or effect
for purposes of this Act.
“(b) Any reference in this Act to the `explanatory
statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding
division A of this consolidated Act)' shall be deemed to be a
reference to the explanatory statement described in
subsection (a) of this section.
“Sec. 556. Amounts made available in this Act and the
Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026 (division A of Public Law
119-37) for personnel pay, allowances, and benefits in each
department and agency shall be available for payments
pursuant to subsection (c) of section 1341 of title 31,
United States Code, and such payments shall be made.
“Sec. 557. All obligations incurred and in anticipation
of the appropriations made and authority granted by this Act
and the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026 (division A of
Public Law 119-37) for the purposes of maintaining the
essential level of activity to protect life and property and
bringing about orderly termination of Government function,
and for purposes as otherwise authorized by law, are hereby
ratified and approved if otherwise in accord with the
provisions of this Act and the Continuing Appropriations Act,
“This Act may be cited as the `Department of Homeland
Security Appropriations Act, 2026'.
“TITLE VI
“FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2026
“Sec. 601. The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026
(division A of Public Law 119-37) is further amended by
substituting the date of enactment of this Act for the date
specified in section 106(3).
“Sec. 602. For the purposes of the Continuing
Appropriations Act, 2026 (division A of Public Law 119-37),
the time covered by such Act shall be considered to include
the period which began on or about February 14, 2026, during
which there occurred a lapse in appropriations.”.