Changes in Education, Finance, Trade, Pensions, and Immigration
This document addresses the consideration of several important bills that could impact various aspects of citizens' lives. It covers changes in university accreditation rules, financial market regulations, country of origin marking rules, pension fund management, as well as immigration and environmental issues. The aim is to help citizens understand the potential consequences of these changes.
Key points
Higher Education: Prohibiting accrediting agencies from requiring political litmus tests or constitutional rights violations for accreditation.
Finance: Amending federal securities laws regarding disclosure requirements and establishing a Public Company Advisory Committee.
Trade: Requiring maintenance of country of origin markings for imported goods from the West Bank or Gaza.
Pensions: Specifying requirements for considering pecuniary and non-pecuniary factors in employee retirement income security.
Immigration: Making sanctuary jurisdictions ineligible for federal funds if they provide benefits to undocumented aliens.
Immigration: Making aliens convicted of or who have committed sex offenses or domestic violence inadmissible and deportable.
Environment: Congressional disapproval of EPA's multi-pollutant emissions standards for 2027 and later vehicles.
2024-09-18
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214
Against
200
Abstain
0
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Additional Information
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3724) to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit recognized accrediting agencies and associations from requiring, encouraging, or coercing institutions of higher education to meet any political litmus test or violate any right protected by the Constitution as a condition of accreditation; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4790) to amend the Federal securities laws with respect to the materiality of disclosure requirements, to establish the Public Company Advisory Committee, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5179) to require the maintenance of the country of origin markings for imported goods produced in the West Bank or Gaza, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5339) to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to specify requirements concerning the consideration of pecuniary and non-pecuniary factors, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5717) to provide that sanctuary jurisdictions that provide benefits to aliens who are present in the United States without lawful status under the immigration laws are ineligible for Federal funds intended to benefit such aliens; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7909) to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who have been convicted of or who have committed sex offenses or domestic violence are inadmissible and deportable; and providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 136) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles".
Print number: HRES 1455
Sponsor: Rep. Houchin, Erin [R-IN-9]
Process start date: 2024-09-17
Voting date: 2024-09-18
Meeting no: 2
Voting no: 421