[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [ufpj-activist] Omnibus Spending Bill: Full Text (and some bad things which *didn't* make it in)

[Robert Naiman]

All of the odious provisions of the visa waiver bill were kept and were not
mitigated: the nationality-based exclusions, the blanket travel-based
exclusions; no sunset was attached.

Small consolation: Sens. Durbin and Flake, among others, fought to exclude
or address the provisions. But they lost.






Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> The budget bill reportedly includes
>
>    * NO rider to prevent refugees from Syria and Iraq from coming to the
> US.
> Good!  But ...
>    * They did include the bill passed by the House last week to enhance
> security checks for people entering the US from countries where a visa is
> not now required.
>
>
> But I don't know what riders did make it in.
>
> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [ufpj-activist] Omnibus
> Spending Bill: Full Text Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 07:06:39 +0000 From: Michael
> Eisenscher <m_eisenscher at uslaboragainstwar.org>
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>
> The Rules Committee and House clerk note that a Senate amendment to HR
> 2029 (Military Construction-VA approps bill) was filed at 11:57 p.m.
> Tuesday.  At that time, it only had the Mil Con-VA provisions, but now the
> full 2,000 page omnibus is available - gasp.  It's here:
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__docs.house.gov_billsthisweek_20151214_CPRT-2D114-2DHPRT-2DRU00-2DSAHR2029-2DAMNT1final.pdf&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=TBNJDgsVvoFAkHIE9oepiKelF8ALH2iB5j7NWzNzAiQ&s=E8ots8jqu5J8NAZd0WTzl_ead5ex7kA5yCGVrpqEh4o&e=>
> http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20151214/CPRT-114-HPRT-RU00-SAHR2029-AMNT1final.pdf
>
>
> There are press accounts of what happened with various rider proposals -
> the news here seems extremely good, although obviously experts in the
> various areas have to look at the bill before drawing too many conclusions.
>  But here is info about some of the riders that had been considered -
> source for most of this is CQ:
>
>
> - NO rider to prevent refugees from Syria and Iraq from coming to the US.
> They did include the bill passed by the House last week to enhance security
> checks for people entering the US from countries where a visa is not now
> required.
>
>
> - NO McConnell campaign finance rider - (that would have relaxed
> restrictions on coordination between political parties and candidates;
> relaxed contribution requirements.)  They rejected a proposal to eliminate
> the check-off on IRS tax form for contributing to public financing of
> presidential campaigns.
>
>
> - NO blocking of fiduciary rule by DOL - requiring that retirement
> financial advisors operate in the interests of their clients.
>
>
> - NO blocking of NLRB ruling related to joint employer status and union
> negotiations.
>
>
> - NO limits to FDA regulation of electronic cigarettes.
>
>
> Reported elsewhere that most efforts to rein in Dodd-Frank
> financial/consumer financial regulations were not successful.
>
>
>
>
>
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