Text of Senate Amendment 4775

Text of Senate Amendment 4775

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 55 (Tuesday, March 24, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 55 (Tuesday, March 24, 2026)] [Senate] [Page S1583] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] 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, 2026. ``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.''. ______