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handle is hein.crs/crsmthmbcrt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CRS INSIGHT Department of Homeland Security Appropriations, FY2018: Current Action October 18, 2017 (IN10760) Related Author * William L Painter William L. Painter, Specialist in Homeland Security and Appropriations (WainteraTcrslQQ gQo, 7-3335) The House version of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations Act, 2018, passed the House as part of a consolidated appropriations bill, and the Senate version is awaiting subcommittee markup. The House of Representatives passed its version of the act as Division E and Division M of HR 3354, a consolidated appropriations act that now contains all 12 annual appropriations bills. H R 3354 passed the House by a vote of 211- 198 (RQl .52) on September 14, 2017. The appropriations usually included in the annual appropriations bill for DHS were split between the two divisions because of how those bills were considered on the House floor. For details on the publicly available contents of these bills, see CRS Report R44927, Department of Homeland Security AD2rovriations: FY2018 and other CRS reports on the subject. The House Appropriations Committee reported out its version of the DHS Appropriations Act, 2018, HR 3355, by a vote of 30-22 on July 18, 2017. Among the appropriations in the bill was $2,008,719,000 in a Procurement, Construction, and Improvements appropriation for the DHS's U.S. Customs and Border Protection component (CBP). The next week, the House took up H R 3219, the Make America Secure Appropriations Act (H R 3219), the first of two consolidated appropriations acts considered by the House in the summer of 2017. It contained four annual appropriations bills, but not the annual appropriations for DHS. On July 26, 2017, H R 3219 began consideration under a structured rule (H Res 473), making certain amendments in order. The next day, a second rule (H Re 478) was adopted, which provided for additional amendments, including one offered by House Appropriations Committee, Homeland Security Subcommittee Chairman John Carter. This amendment added a new division to HR, 3219, which consisted only of a Procurement, Construction and Improvements appropriation for CBP. The appropriation would provide $1,571,239,000 for construction of physical barriers along the Southwestern border of the United States. This funding was specifically directed in the amendment text as follows: * $784,000,000 for 32 miles of new border bollard fencing in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas; * $498,000,000 for 28 miles of new bollard levee wall in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas; * $251,000,000 for 14 miles of secondary fencing in San Diego, California; and

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