Immigration Bills

The bill would waive an alien’s inadmissibility resulting from misrepresentation of a material fact if that alien is an immediate relative of an active duty or reserve member of the Armed Forces; would apply the waiver to misrepresentations made before, on, or after enactment; and would extend eligibility for a V nonimmigrant visa, which permits nonimmigrant spouses and minor children of lawful permanent residents who are beneficiaries of an immigrant petition to reside and work in the United States while waiting to obtain immigrant status, to those immediate relative aliens.

The bill as amended on the House floor, would: (1) prohibit all three mortgage lending government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) – Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks – from obtaining primary residential mortgages being granted to any person who does not have a valid Social Security number (amendment sponsored by Rep.

To amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts, and for other purposes.

A bill to make the United States more secure by implementing unfinished recommendations of the 9/11 Commission to fight the war on terror more effectively, to improve homeland security, and for other purposes.

The bill would express the sense of the House that: (1) state and local governments should be supported for acting to discourage illegal immigration; and (2) Congress should promptly pass comprehensive border security and enforcement legislation as to ease the burden on those state and local governments.

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that State and local governments should be supported for taking actions to discourage illegal immigration and that legislation should be enacted to ease the burden on State and local governments for taking such actions.