Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation ActThis bill directs the Department of State to designate four specified drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. (Among other things, such a designation allows the Department of the Treasury to require U.S. financial institutions to block transactions involving the organization.)The four specified cartels in the bill are the Gulf Cartel, the Cartel Del Noreste, the Cartel de Sinaloa, and the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion.The bill also requires the State Department to submit a detailed report on those four cartels and any other cartels it may identify. Based on this report, the State Department must designate as a foreign terrorist organization any such identified cartel (or faction thereof) that meets certain criteria for designation as a foreign terrorist organization.The bill specifies that it may not be construed to expand eligibility for asylum.
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the number of persons in each State who are citizens of the United States.
Impeaching John James McConnell Jr., Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Fair Representation AmendmentThis resolution directs specified House committees to conduct a comprehensive review of laws within their jurisdiction and to recommend changes to eliminate excessive executive branch discretion in the application of those laws. Thereafter, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform must report legislation containing all such recommendations with the short title Article One Restoration Act.The requirement applies to the following House committees:AgricultureArmed ServicesBudgetEducation and WorkforceEnergy and CommerceFinancial ServicesForeign AffairsJudiciaryNatural ResourcesOversight and Government ReformScience, Space, and TechnologySmall BusinessTransportation and InfrastructureVeterans’ AffairsWays and MeansPermanent Select Committee on Intelligence