Therefore. if a statute were enacted which prohibited appropriated funds from being used for some specified purposes. then the relevant funds would be unavailable to be obligated or expended for those purposes." Sessions team provided the CRS reportwhich is not made public unless Members of Congress who request such reports decide to make them so exclusively to Breitbart News. Rogers. last week And apparently it is talking about House Appropriations Committee Chairman Representative ROGERS. Rogers. last week. argued that Congress could not block funding for Obamas executive amnesty because the agency that will be printing the work authorization and other documents for illegal aliens U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) operates primarily on fees it collects rather than from tax revenue collected by the Federal Government. So. as I understand it. the Appropriations Committee was concerned that since the Citizenship and Immigration Services. or CIS. gets a great deal of their funds from fees. perhaps we couldnt defund them. But the CIS report goes on to say this: A feefunded agency or activity typically refers to one in which the amounts appropriated by Congress for that agency or activity are derived from fees collected from some external source. Importantly. amounts received as fees by Federal agencies must still be appropriated by Congress to that agency in order to be available for obligation or expenditure by the agency.
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