S. 11: ENFORCE the Law Act of 2015
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S. 11: ENFORCE the Law Act of 2015
114th Congress · introduced 2015-01-06 · Government Operations and Politics · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2015-01-06 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
ENFORCE the Law Act of 2015
Plain summary
Executive Needs to Faithfully Observe and Respect Congressional Enactments of the Law Act of 2015 or the ENFORCE the Law Act of 2015 Authorizes either chamber of Congress, upon adoption of a resolution declaring that the President or any officer or employee of the United States has established or implemented a policy, practice, or procedure to refrain from enforcing, applying, following, or administering any federal statute, rule, regulation, program, policy, or other law in violation of the constitutional requirement that the President faithfully execute the laws of the United States, to bring a civil action for a declaratory judgment to that effect. Grants jurisdiction to a three-judge panel of a U.S. district court to hear such civil action and provides for an expedited direct appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.
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Official text
ENFORCE the Law Act of 2015
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO] · 24 cosponsors
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Cosponsors on this site
John Boozman (R-AR), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Deb Fischer (R-NE), John Cornyn (R-TX), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Tim Scott (R-SC), Rand Paul (R-KY), James Lankford (R-OK), James E. Risch (R-ID), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
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Words on this page, explained (4)
- Jurisdiction
- The area or the matters a government or court has authority over.
- Resolution
- A formal statement or decision by a legislative body. Simple resolutions often only express an opinion or set rules for one chamber; they do not become law.
- Rulemaking
- The process agencies use to write regulations that carry out laws passed by Congress or a legislature. Usually an agency publishes a proposed rule, takes public comments, then publishes a final rule.
- Statute
- A written law passed by a legislature. A statute can be changed by a later law; changing a constitution needs an amendment.
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-114s11.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/114/s>
Record fed-us-cong114-s11 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114