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Rodney Davis was mentioned in EMERGENCY REPATRIATION ASSISTANCE FOR RETURNING AMERICANS ACT..... on page H4415 covering the 1st Session of the 117th Congress published on Aug. 24, 2021 in the Congressional Record.

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EMERGENCY REPATRIATION ASSISTANCE FOR RETURNING AMERICANS ACT

Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on the Budget be discharged from further consideration of the bill (H.R. 5085) to amend section 1113 of the Social Security Act to provide authority for increased payments for temporary assistance to United States citizens returned from foreign countries, and for other purposes, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.

The Clerk read the title of the bill.

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Blunt Rochester). Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Illinois?

There was no objection.

The text of the bill is as follows:

H.R. 5085

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Repatriation Assistance for Returning Americans Act''.

SEC. 2. INCREASE IN AGGREGATE PAYMENTS.

(a) In General.--Section 1113(d) of the Social Security Act

(42 U.S.C. 1313(d)) is amended by striking ``fiscal year 2020, the total amount of such assistance provided during such fiscal year shall not exceed $10,000,000'' and inserting

``fiscal years 2021 and 2022, the total amount of such assistance provided during each such fiscal year shall not exceed $10,000,000''.

(b) Emergency Designation.--

(1) In general.--The amounts provided by the amendment made by this section are designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)).

(2) Designation in senate.--In the Senate, this section and the amendment made by this section are designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 4001(a)(1) of S. Con. Res. 14 (117th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2022.

The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 150

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