Key Votes
S Amdt 2480 - Border Fence and Customs Appropriations - Key Vote
National Key Votes
Barbara Mikulski voted Yea (Amendment Vote) on this legislation.
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Stages
Family
- HR 2638 - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations
- S Amdt 2480 - Border Fence and Customs Appropriations
- S Amdt 2405 - REAL ID Funding
- EHCR 4409 - Congressional and State Legislative Redistricting
Issues
Note
NOTE: THIS IS AN AMENDMENT TO A SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT. A SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT REPLACES THE ENTIRE TEXT OF A PIECE OF LEGISLATION WITH A NEW TEXT.
Stage Details
Amendment - Amendment Adopted (Senate) (89-1) - July 26, 2007 (Key vote)
Title: Border Fence and Customs Appropriations
Vote to adopt an amendment that appropriates $3 billion to place border fences and customs requirements along the United States and Mexico land border.
- Requires that within 2 years of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security must establish 100% operational control of the international land border between the United States and Mexico (Sec. 1002[a(2)]).
- Requires the United States Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol to hire, train, and report for duty 23,000 additional full time agents (Sec. 1002[a(3)]).
- Requires the United States Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol to build a 700 linear mile fence, install 300 miles of vehicle barriers, install 105 ground-based radar and camera towers, and place 4 unmanned aerial vehicles and supporting systems along the United States-Mexico international land border (Sec. 1002[a(3)]).
- Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to detain all undocumented immigrants apprehended crossing the international land border between the United States and Mexico, unless specifically mandated by humanitarian circumstances (Sec. 1002[a]).
- Allocates any remaining funds to maintain control over international land and maritime borders, improve employment eligibility verification, and increase removal and detention of immigrants who have overstayed their visas and immigrants who have reentered the United States without proper documentation (Sec. 1003).
Amendment - Introduced (Senate) - July 26, 2007
Title: Border Fence and Customs Appropriations
Sponsors
Co-sponsors
- Lamar Alexander (TN - R)
- Max S. Baucus (MT - D)
- Jim Bunning (KY - R) (Out Of Office)
- Robert C. Byrd (WV - D) (Out Of Office)
- Clarence Saxby Chambliss (GA - R)
- Thomas Allen 'Tom' Coburn (OK - R)
- Norm Coleman (MN - R) (Out Of Office)
- Robert 'Bob' Corker (TN - R)
- John Cornyn (TX - R)
- Elizabeth H. Dole (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Pete V. Domenici Jr. (NM - R) (Out Of Office)
- Dianne Feinstein (CA - D)
- Judd A. Gregg (NH - R) (Out Of Office)
- Orrin G. Hatch (UT - R)
- Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX - R) (Out Of Office)
- James M. 'Jim' Inhofe (OK - R)
- Jon Kyl (AZ - R) (Out Of Office)
- Mary L. Landrieu (LA - D)
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln (AR - D) (Out Of Office)
- Melquiades Rafael 'Mel' Martinez (FL - R) (Out Of Office)
- John Sidney McCain III (AZ - R)
- Claire McCaskill (MO - D)
- Mark Lunsford Pryor (AR - D)
- Ken Salazar (CO - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jefferson Beauregard 'Jeff' Sessions III (AL - R)
- Arlen Specter (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- John E. Sununu (NH - R) (Out Of Office)
- David B. Vitter (LA - R)
- John William Warner (VA - R) (Out Of Office)
- James H. 'Jim' Webb Jr. (VA - D) (Out Of Office)
