Alan Grayson: “I think that the bill as it is now actually takes appropriate steps with regard to corruption.”

This amendment is nearly identical to an amendment that passed by voice vote last year. I hope we will agree on its passage again this year.

I regard that as unconstitutional, under the INS v. Chadha decision from 1983.

The opportunity for peace is based upon a very fragile concept called personal safety and security.

This amendment is identical to other amendments that have been inserted by voice vote into every appropriations bill considered under an open rule under the 113th and 114th Congresses and, in the last few weeks, under a structural rule. If…