Lady Liberty Act of 2021

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 117th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

GCD ConnollySponsor

59 cosponsors · 59 D

EBD Blumenauer DBD Beyer NBD Barragán YCD Clarke SCD Cohen DCD Cicilline DDD DeGette TDD Deutch MDD DeSaulnier DDD Dingell AED Eshoo AED Espaillat VED Escobar BFD Foster RGD Grijalva AGD Green RGD Gallego CGD García SGD Garcia AHD Hastings EJD Johnson HJD Johnson PJD Jayapal MKD Kaptur WKD Keating RKD Khanna BLD Lee TLD Lieu ALD Levin JMD McGovern BMD McCollum GMD Moore SMD Moulton END Norton GND Napolitano IOD Omar FPD Pallone BPD Pascrell CPD Pingree SPD Peters JPD Panetta LRD Roybal-Allard BRD Rush KRD Rice JRD Raskin BSD Scott ASD Smith JSD Schakowsky ASD Sires TSD Suozzi RTD Tlaib NVD Velázquez JVD Vargas DWD Wasserman Schultz PWD Welch BWD Watson Coleman DRD Ross DED Evans SJD Jacobs

56 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

This bill sets a floor of 125,000 for the maximum number of refugees who may be admitted into the United States each fiscal year. Under current law, the President sets the annual cap on refugee admissions at the beginning of each fiscal year. (The cap for FY2021 is 15,000, and the cap for FY2020 was 18,000.)