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Floor SpeechNeutral2025-01-16

Text of Senate Amendment 79

Mark Kelly
Mark Kelly
DAZ · Senator
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On Wed Jan 15, Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) delivered a floor speech titled "Text Of Senate Amendment 79" in the Senate. The speech addressed taxes and also covered the environment, labor policy. It referenced legislation including S232, S5.

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Text of Senate Amendment 79

Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 9 (Thursday, January 16, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 9 (Thursday, January 16, 2025)] [Senate] [Page S232] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] SA 79. Mr. KELLY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 5, to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 3, line 8, strike the end quote and final period and insert the following: ``(4) Cooperation on judicial proceedings; request for release.-- ``(A) Cooperation.--The Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish rules for cooperating with requests from a Federal, State, Tribal or local official and for complying with court orders to ensure that any alien in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security who is required to appear in a court for another matter in which the alien is a defendant, victim, witness, potential witness, or person cooperating with an investigation of a major criminal activity, including proceedings for an offense described in paragraph (1)(E), is transported or transferred by an officer or employee of the Department for such court proceeding. ``(B) Release.--Any alien being held in custody pursuant to an arrest or charge described in paragraph (1)(E) who is acquitted or not otherwise convicted of such charge within 90 days after the alien's first day of detention shall be entitled to a hearing to challenge the basis for the alien's custody under paragraph (1)(E) or to request to be released under subsection (a)(2).''. ______
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