This joint resolution nullifies the interim final rule submitted by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security and published on March 29, 2022, concerning procedures for the consideration of asylum claims and other related issues. (Among other changes, the interim final rule requires an asylum seeker subject to expedited removal to be screened by an asylum officer for a credible fear of persecution or torture, rather than a credible fear of persecution, reasonable possibility of persecution, or reasonable possibility of torture.)
Calendar No. 396
117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. J. RES. 46

  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Justice 
 and the Department of Homeland Security relating to ``Procedures for 
  Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of 
        Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 28, 2022

 Mr. Johnson (for himself, Mr. Barrasso, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Boozman, 
Mr. Braun, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Cruz, Mr. 
Daines, Mr. Graham, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Hagerty, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Hoeven, 
    Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Lee, Ms. Lummis, Mr. 
   Marshall, Mr. Moran, Mr. Paul, Mr. Risch, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Scott of 
  Florida, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Tuberville, Mr. Wicker, and Mrs. Fischer) 
  introduced the following joint resolution; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

                              May 25, 2022

  Committee discharged, by petition, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 802(c), and 
                         placed on the calendar

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Justice 
 and the Department of Homeland Security relating to ``Procedures for 
  Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of 
        Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers''.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled,
    That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Department of 
Justice and the Department of Homeland Security relating to 
``Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, 
Withholding of Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers'' 
(87 Fed. Reg. 18078 (March 29, 2022)), and such rule shall have no 
force or effect.




                                                       Calendar No. 396

117th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                             S. J. RES. 46

_______________________________________________________________________

                            JOINT RESOLUTION

  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Justice 
 and the Department of Homeland Security relating to ``Procedures for 
  Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of 
        Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers''.

_______________________________________________________________________

                              May 25, 2022

  Committee discharged, by petition, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 802(c), and 
                         placed on the calendar
A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security relating to "Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers".
A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security relating to "Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers".
Official Titles - Senate
Official Title as Introduced
A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security relating to "Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers".
Sen. Johnson, Ron