Provides for the establishment of categories of aliens presumed to be subject to persecution in their home countries and therefore admissible into the United States as refugees.
Directs the Attorney General to establish such categories for aliens who are or were nationals and residents of: (1) the Soviet Union; (2) Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia); or (3) Poland.
Deems the following groups to be in such categories: (1) Jews, Evangelical Christians, and members of the Ukranian Catholic or Orthodox Churches in the Soviet Union; and (2) Indochinese identified by certain Immigration and Naturalization Service refugee guidelines.
Provides for the adjustment to refugee status for certain Soviet and Indochinese parolees residing in the United States.
Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 101-122.
Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 101-122.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 82.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 195 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2022 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be read by section. Bill is open to amendments.
Rule H. Res. 195 passed House.
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 195.
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2022 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be read by section. Bill is open to amendments.
House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 195 and Rule XXIII.
The Speaker designated the Honorable Marcy Kaptur to act as Chairwoman of the Committee.
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2022.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
The House adopted the amendments en gros as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 358 - 44 (Roll no. 139).
Roll Call #139 (House)On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 358 - 44 (Roll no. 139).
Roll Call #139 (House)The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 2022.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Referred to Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs.
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